On Jul 21 2021, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> The Intel IA-64 Application Developer's Architecture Guide, May 1999,
> (Order Number: 245188-001) on page 5-1, in Table 5-1 has
>
>>> ...
>>> Total memory format width (bits) 32 64 80 128
>>> Exponent bias
Andreas Schwab responds to my problem report posted at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2021/07/msg0.html
>> ...
>> > The cause MIGHT be the incorrect value in of LDBL_MIN_EXP:
>> > the M68K system has -16382, whereas test output from every other
>> > system in our farm that suppo
On Jul 21 2021, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> The cause MIGHT be the incorrect value in of LDBL_MIN_EXP:
> the M68K system has -16382, whereas test output from every other
> system in our farm that supports an 80-bit IEEE 754 format has -16381.
This is correct. In the m68881 extended float format
I run a large farm of physical and virtual machines that we use for
software testing. We have multiple versions of most of the major
operating systems, covering the major CPU families of the past 30
years, including M68K.
In testing some numerical software on Debian 11 on M68k (emulated by
QEMU 4
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