[Python-Dev] Python on non IEEE-754 platforms: plea for information.

[Christian Heimes]

Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Thank you:  a very useful thread.  From what little information I'm turning
> up on Google, it looks as though most of these devices---if they support
> floating-point at all---provide some reasonably close approximation to IEEE
> 754 floats (possibly emulated in software).


Some of the devices have a (slow) floating point engine. But it's
sometimes disabled to safe power or userland software can't sometimes
access the FPU. Some devices can (ab)use the DSP or GPU/OpenGL engine to
speed up floating point ops.

Christian