[Python-Dev] Progress report on PEP 242

[Guido van Rossum]

I don't know if it answers all the questions one could ask about a
floating point implementation, but long ago my esteemed Dutch
colleague Steven Pemberton (ABC project lead, these days chair of the
W3C XHTML working group) wrote a C program, "enquire.c", that attempts
to figure out lots of machine details.  It might help finding the
properties of floats and doubles without assuming IEEE-754.

http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/enquire.html

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)