Re: 80-bit subnormals printed incorrectly on Debian 11 M68K
On Jul 21 2021, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> The Intel IA-64 Application Developer's Architecture Guide, May 1999,
> (Order Number: 245188-001) on page 5-1, in Table 5-1 has
>
>>> ...
>>> Total memory format width (bits) 32 64 80 128
>>> Exponent bias +127 +1023 +16383 +16383
That are the biases for normalized numbers. What does it say about
denormalized numbers? Note that the i387 format does not allow for a
biased exponent of zero when the explicit integer bit is one, unlike the
m68881 format.
Andreas.
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