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Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float

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On 30/07/2012 15:16, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-07-30, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> 1) Are there any known implementations or platforms where Python floats
>> are not C doubles? If so, what are they?
>
> And the question you didn't ask: are there any platforms where a C
> double isn't IEEE-754?
>
> The last ones I worked on that where the FP format wasn't IEEE were
> the DEC VAX and TI's line if 32-bit floating-point DSPs.  I don't
> think Python runs on the latter, but it might on the former.
>

Support for Python on VMS has been dropped for v3.3 see 
http://bugs.python.org/issue11918

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.

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Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-07-30 00:44 +0000
  PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2012-07-29 20:26 -0500
    Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-07-30 14:00 +1000
      Re: [Python] Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Chris Gonnerman <chris@gonnerman.org> - 2012-07-30 07:46 -0500
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net> - 2012-07-29 18:08 -0700
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-07-30 01:17 -0400
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Ulrich Eckhardt <ulrich.eckhardt@dominolaser.com> - 2012-07-30 08:42 +0200
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 00:57 -0700
  Re: PyPI question, or, maybe I'm just stupid Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de> - 2012-07-30 11:20 +0200
  Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 14:16 +0000
    Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-30 10:28 -0400
    Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-07-30 15:50 +0100
      Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-07-30 15:47 +0000
        Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-07-30 16:50 -0400
    Re: Extracting bit fields from an IEEE-784 float Mark Dickinson <dickinsm@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 09:14 -0700

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