Sujet : Re: Parsing timestamps?
De : no.email (at) *nospam* nospam.invalid (Paul Rubin)
Groupes : comp.lang.forthDate : 10. Jul 2025, 20:33:52
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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
I believes IEEE specifies both 80 bit and 128 bit formats in addition
to 64 bit.
Not 80-bit format. binary128 and binary256 are specified.
I see, 80 bits is considered double-extended. "The x87 and Motorola
68881 80-bit formats meet the requirements of the IEEE 754-1985 double
extended format,[12] as does the IEEE 754 128-bit binary format."
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_precision)
Interestingly, Kahan's 1997 report on IEEE 754's status does say 80 bit
is specified. But it sounds like that omits some nuance.
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/IEEE754.PDF