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@node ieee754.h
@section @file{ieee754.h}

Defines the types @code{union ieee754_float}, @code{union ieee754_double},
@code{union ieee854_long_double}.

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This header file is missing on all non-glibc platforms:
Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin, mingw, MSVC 14, Interix 3.5, BeOS, Android 9.0.
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
The substitute for this header file has not been tested for @code{long
double} and does not work on some platforms.

@item
The substitute for this header file returns nonsense on (now-quite-rare)
platforms that do not use IEEE floating point.
@end itemize