In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

Tor Arntsen kspt.tor at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 03:06:15 CDT 2019


On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 09:55, emanuel stiebler via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> On 2019-06-11 20:50, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
[..]
> > I'd like to compile a set of IEEE-754 tests on the 3B2. Unfortunately, the only compiler I have ready access to on the 3B2 is AT&T's pre-ANSI C compiler, so not a lot of modern C is going to work.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a period-appropriate set of IEEE-754 tests that could be compiled on SVR3?
> >
>
> http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html

I took a quick look - the source is written in ANSI C (including the
oldest versions there), so that looks like it won't work for Seth.


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