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- From: westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Dorothy Westphal)
- Subject: Data storage info needed
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.152938.27010@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:29:38 GMT
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- We are assembling a brief guide for our users
- who have been using various mainframes or
- workstations, and wish to switch to a different
- machine. We are including some comparison tables
- on data representation on five workstations and
- two mainframes, primarily for FORTRAN programmers
- (yes, they still exist!). I have been digging through the
- manuals, and I have not been able to find the
- following on the SGI 40/50GT:
-
- 1. is bit storage bit alignment 0 to 31, right to left?
- 2. is a character constant stored left to right or right to left?
- 3. REAL*4 : significant decimal digits: 7? mantissa: 23 bits?
- exponent: 8 bits? sign bits: 1?
- 4. REAL*8 : significant decimal digits: 16? mantissa: 52 bits?
- exponent: 11 bits? sign bits: 1?
-
- Thanks in advance for any help.
- --
- Dorothy Westphal, Sunnyvale, Calif. % Just when things are going your way...%
- westphal@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com % they get even better! %
-