[Info-vax] VMS Software Q1 '23 Update

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/30/23 6:32 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> I wonder what Basic on Itanium does and what Basic on x86-64 does / will 
> do.
> 
> Convert to T and do T math? Or software emulation?

Looks like for Itanium it's all covered here:

http://neilrieck.net/misc/pdf/vms-docs/i64-floating-pt-wp.pdf

It seems unlikely they would do anything differently for x86_64.