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On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:12:32AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:21:30PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > verify correct FP behaviour by the CPU and compiler floating around on
> > > the net - look at NETLIB or Prof W. Kahan's web site.  (I don't have
> > > the URL's immediately to hand).
> > 
> > ucbtest is good but is too old to cover much of C99.  I haven't found
> > anything anywhere near as good and up to date.
> 
> Have you looked at John Hauser's SoftFloat package?
> http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html.
> 
> The blurb at the top of the web page states: "SoftFloat fully implements
> the four most common floating-point formats: single precision (32 bits),

NetBSD uses this in their libc for PowerPC, Sparc64, StrongARM.