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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Java portability (was: An Ada IDE and discussions)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:50:39 +0200
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"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr> writes:

>> Yes, I think so. Some people claim that the JVM support for floating
>> point operations was designed so that it runs fast and correctly only
>> on Sun's hardware. ;-)

> What makes you think so ? The trouble is that Java *requires* IEEE
> arithmetic.

A particular incarnation of it.  For example, you can't use x86 80 bit
extended precision floating point operations with the JVM.  OTOH,
there is some double-extended-exponent type, and I would be suprised
if no SPARC processor implemented it. ;-)