mini-gmp mpz_{get,set}_d not fully compatible with GMP
Marc Glisse
marc.glisse at inria.fr
Fri Mar 9 16:41:49 UTC 2018
On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Torbjörn Granlund wrote:
> For GMP, it's desirable to fix also the non IEEE-version.
>
> That would have some value, I suppose, although non-IEEE formats of
> course have become largely obsolete.
This code is mostly used not for non-IEEE formats, but for cases where we
fail to detect that it *is* IEEE. For instance when compiling to bitcode
(gcc LTO, LLVM, webassembly, etc). Of course, better IEEE detection would
help those more than fixing the fallback path.
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Marc Glisse
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