Hi, > > Compared to the IEEE formats, the sign bit is in a different place - > > but there is much to be said for this scheme > > AFAIR, IEEE 754 does *not* tell use the format of the FP values! It only > defines the "blocks" we have to define (sign, fractional part, > exponent), and how these are handled. It does not define if LSB first or > MSB first is used, or the order of the blocks! I always thought one benefit of the IEEE format is, that it's designed to implement comparisons (<, >, =) of n-bit floats as comparisons of n-bit signed integers? That's only possible if the MSB is the sign bit. The code to compare 4 byte signed ints is already in the libs. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Tue Sep 28 09:34:01 2004
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