Re: VAX floating point formats & tuning GCC for CPU models (was Re: Some more patches for GCC...)

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>>> I would expect -msoft-float if it existed to be entirely IEEE
>>> format and [...]
>> The floating-point format used is down to the ABI -- [...]

Well, to an extent.  I expect you would have trouble finding a compiler
that generated VAX assembly/machine code but with IEEE floats.
-msoft-float (if it existed) would handle the arithmetic, but you'd
also have to generate constants and the like to match.

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