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

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 03:07:33 CET 2008


On Feb 1, 2008 7:56 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

> Mostly. For VAX, there exist two double formats: the D format, and the
> G format - not sure whether you counted them as two.
>

I didn't.  Thanks.


> They run Linux, so yes. Notice that other people also run Python on z/OS.
>

Okay.  So FLT_RADIX==2 can't be assumed, in general.

Thanks for the information.

Mark
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