Your ilogb fix is ok gkoehler@

On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:09:07 +0100 (CET)
Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> - Dropping the amd64 and i386 versions.  Fixing the corner cases in
>   assembly is hard, and the C implementation should be fast enough for
>   regular floating-point values.

The amd64 and i386 assembly uses the x87 fxtract instruction.  I feel
that x87 instructions are obsolete on amd64.  One might want to use
fxtract on i386, but software might call frexp(3) to get the exponent,
and we have frexp(3) in C.  I am ok with ilogb(3) in C.

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