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