Re: Use of soft float?

From	Reinhardt Behm <rbehm@hushmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: Use of soft float?
Date	2018-06-06 12:54 +0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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AT Wednesday 06 June 2018 11:37, Luke A.  Guest wrote:

> Philipp Klaus Krause <e> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> * What kind of computations do people use soft float for? Any real-world
>> examples?
>> * Which types of soft float do they use? IEEE 32- or 64-bit? Some other
>> C standard-compliant type? 16-bit IEEE? Other 16-bit?
>> 
> 
> Probably not what you’re asking, but... Ada has always, AFAIK, had fixed
> point types as well as floating point types. Fixed point is implemented
> with integers.

Nothing new. It was there in PL/I since the 1960'ties. binary fixed(p,q)

-- 
Reinhardt

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