On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Tamar Christina wrote:

> A limitation with this new approach is that the exponent
> of the floating point has to fit in 31 bits and the floating
> point has to have an IEEE like format and values for NaN and INF
> (e.g. for NaN and INF all bits of the exp must be set).
> 
> To determine this IEEE likeness a new boolean was added to real_format.

Why is this boolean false for ieee_quad_format, mips_quad_format and 
ieee_half_format?  They should meet your description (even if the x86 / 
m68k "extended" formats don't because of the leading mantissa bit being 
set for infinities).

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Joseph S. Myers
jos...@codesourcery.com

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