Re: [fpc-devel] Revision 39348 (Florian)

2018-06-30 Thread Bart
On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:54 PM, Florian Klämpfl wrote: > Afaik the mantissa function is defined like this for the records, yes. They > do not include the hidden bit. Hmm, then Rudy Velthuis is wrong (or Delphi). I saw that my patch for the floathelpers caused a regression, see

Re: [fpc-devel] Revision 39348 (Florian)

2018-06-30 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 30.06.2018 um 18:19 schrieb Bart: Hi Florian, I do nut really understand why you return a mantissa with the highest bit stripped off for type Extended. From what I have gathered about 80-bit extended type the mantissa of this type _is_ the full 64 bits, see

[fpc-devel] Revision 39348 (Florian)

2018-06-30 Thread Bart
Hi Florian, I do nut really understand why you return a mantissa with the highest bit stripped off for type Extended. From what I have gathered about 80-bit extended type the mantissa of this type _is_ the full 64 bits, see http://rvelthuis.de/articles/articles-floats.html Does Delphi strip