On Apr 29 2020, Laurent Vivier wrote: > "Since the extended-precision data format has an explicit integer bit, a > number can be formatted with a nonzero exponent, less than the maximum > value, and a zero integer bit. The IEEE 754 standard does not define a > zero integer bit. Such a number is an unnormalized number. Hardware does > not directly support denormalized and unnormalized numbers, but > implicitly supports them by trapping them as unimplemented data types, > allowing efficient conversion in software."
This is supposed to be handled transparently by fpsp040, to be compatible with the 68881. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, sch...@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."
