Reply To: Specification and Floating Point Numbers

I am not able to talk about the merits of UNUM, although I did post it to comp.arch to see what they made of it.

Mill specification is the other way around; all members support the same complete specification, and some Mills emulate some ops, widths and types.

So a new type would be added to the generic specification and on those Mills that didn’t support it in hardware, it would require emulation.