[m-dev.] Re: pragma fact_tablee

[Andrew Bromage]

G'day.

David Overton wrote:

> I can't see why it wouldn't work.  It will compute a hash value, it
> just won't use all the bits of the float.  How likely is it that
> sizeof(Float) is not an even multiple of sizeof(Integer) anyway?

80 bit IEEE floating point numbers aren't unknown in certain
applications.  Also, the Alpha supports 32 bit floats but has 64
bit integers.

The assumption that the floating point numbers are even multiples of
a byte in length sounds a reasonably assumption to me, though.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage