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Re: [gforth] Floats in gforth?
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Anton Ertl |
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Re: [gforth] Floats in gforth? |
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Wed, 25 May 2016 15:51:48 +0200 |
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On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 08:43:26AM -0400, John Chludzinski wrote:
> IEEE 754 double precision. Check out:
> http://steve.hollasch.net/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html
I have once come across an ARM softfloat implementation that did not
behave like IEEE doubles. Certainly for now Gforth uses C doubles as
Forth float data type, and that's not going to change in the
forseeable future.
- anton