Re: [tlug] What does 80387 have to do with IEEE 754 issues? It's moot. (was Re: issues with format of double (or IEEE754))

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:07:46 -0400
Jim <jep200404@example.com> wrote:

> The ISA bus is not related to his problem. 
Then why do you confuse him with totally irrelevant stuff?

> The use (or not) of a '387 _could_ have been related to his problem. 
It's not.
Even if the data was binary that is read from the device, it is stored
in memory. The floating point number is coming from the device, not the
(co)processor. No floating point operation is done (at least he
didn't say that it was used in some arithmetic operation before the
printf).
printf is a libc call and is not doing any floating point operations
either. 
Please don't fool people.

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