[illumos-Developer] Ugh... xdr_{float,double} problems

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:

> It sounds like all the main CPU targets support IEEE 754.  The only 
> reasonable (?) question IMO is S390.  Roland?  Neale?

If I interpret the floating point code written by David M. Gay from AT&T 
correctly, then IBM and VAX are the two mayor deviations from IEEE.

But HPPA uses at least different parameters for long double than other IEEE 
architectures do.

Jörg

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