In article <3EFC53CF.76D1DAAF@earthlink.net>, Jack Crenshaw wrote:

If you're talking about the format that IA32 FPs store values
in memory, then I doubt it. If you're talking about the 80-bit
internal format, I don't know. I've never tried to use that
format externally.

I've been exchanging float data between IA32 systems and at
least a half-dozen other architectures since the 8086/8087
days. I never saw any format problems.

It is IEEE <something> though 794 doesn't sound right...

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