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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] IEEE floats
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 07:09:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <817c1134cd276abf444e8f03633b63d4@mikro.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <015a7a246411aad9175339f972052f20@quintile.net>

On Thu Feb 27 06:54:22 EST 2014, steve@quintile.net wrote:
> Porting stuff from the net (under ape) which wants to use IEEE floats.
> i.e. ieee754_float32_t, powf(), fabsf() and log10f().
> 
> I could map these to plan9 floats and call the double version
> of the transient functions, but is there a better solution?

plan 9 uses ieee floating point on machines that support it
(all current arches) so ieee754_float32_t ≡ float.
substituting the double version should work.

did they abolish the rule that float is promoted to double
on function call?  or is this the equivalent of char fu(char) vs
int fu(int).

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-27 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-27 11:51 Steve Simon
2014-02-27 12:09 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-02-27 12:29   ` Charles Forsyth
2014-02-27 12:45     ` erik quanstrom

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