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

emanuel stiebler emu at e-bbes.com
Wed Jun 12 02:55:06 CDT 2019


On 2019-06-11 20:50, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
> One of the projects I've been working on recently is adding floating point accelerator emulation to the SIMH 3B2/400 emulator. I _think_ I've done reasonably well, in that the simulator passes all of the accelerator diagnostics that AT&T wrote for their own product, but frankly these tests are rather cursory and don't validate much.
> 
> 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.
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> 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

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