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   chjara (chjara@akko.wtf)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 21:59:01 JST chjara
   why is IEEE 754 sign-magnitude anyway when we've settled on 2s complement for computer stuff like 60 years ago
   i guess symmetric range? but then, -0
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:01:42 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @chjara Meanwhile C only acknowledged two's complement only in something like c23 and I'm not even sure so maybe c2y…
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     anna (navi@social.vlhl.dev)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:03:18 JST anna

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan @chjara it's in c23:
     
     Removed:
     * Representations for signed integers other than two's complement
     
     https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/23
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:09:45 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @chjara Meanwhile I guess you could still use Modern C for 6502, the processor which refuses to die.
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     chjara (chjara@akko.wtf)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:09:46 JST chjara

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan no possibility of a modern c compiler for the univac it's over
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     aliceif (aliceif@mkultra.x27.one)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:13:37 JST aliceif

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     @chjara@akko.wtf earlier this year i actually wrote a translation from IEEE754 to an old proprietary floating point format used in industrial equipment that uses sign-magnitude for both the exponent and the mantissa - differently than IEEE754 does it

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:22:50 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @chjara Oh neat! Thought more about https://cc65.github.io/
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     chjara (chjara@akko.wtf)'s status on Friday, 15-Nov-2024 22:22:51 JST chjara

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan https://llvm-mos.org/wiki/Welcome