IBM integer and double formats

[Mark Dickinson]

On Nov 10, 8:16 pm, Mark Dickinson <dicki... at gmail.com> wrote:

> and how to handle out-of-range floats coming back (if I recall
> correctly, the IBM format allows a wider range of exponents
> than IEEE).
>

Whoops---wrong way around.  It looks like it's IEEE that has the
larger exponent range.  DBL_MAX is around 2.**252 for IBM and
2.**1024 for IEEE.

Sorry.

Mark