Re: [cc65] Re: floating point support redux

On Samstag 01 Mai 2010, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 08:27:53AM +0200, Daniel Pralle wrote:
> > Would IEE754 compatibility be satisfied enough, when we use (single)
> > floats, convert them to the internal representation and convert the
> > result back to single precision float?
> 
> That's not a problem. My plan is not to use IEEE single, just because it's
> standard, but because we need a common format, and if I have to choose, why
> not use the standard one?

to add on top of this: when using standard ieee floats, then a whole lot of 
testprograms are readily available, even for many (if not all) obscure border 
cases of the implementation. when using some weird format from some kernal rom 
... then probably not even all of these border cases are *known* - so 
debugging the while shizznit can be almost impossible, but very annoying 
atleast.

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