From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19431 invoked by alias); 10 Nov 2006 23:10:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 19131 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Nov 2006 23:10:27 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from web37214.mail.mud.yahoo.com (HELO web37214.mail.mud.yahoo.com) (209.191.85.133) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:10:20 +0000 Received: (qmail 14902 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Nov 2006 23:10:18 -0000 Message-ID: <20061110231018.14900.qmail@web37214.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [128.107.248.220] by web37214.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:10:18 PST Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:10:00 -0000 From: ramesh karra Subject: Representation of "double" in powerpc To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 Hi, I would like to know how the "double" type is represented by powerpc gcc. How many bits are allocated for exponent and mantissa? Is the LSB the sign bit or the MSB? Thanks Ramesh ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com