Overview – This manual describes the floating-point environment supported by software and hardware on SPARC-based systems and x86-based systems running the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Oracle Solaris OS). Although this manual discusses some general aspects of the SPARC and Intel architectures, it is primarily a reference manual designed to accompany Oracle language products. Certain aspects of the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic are discussed in this manual. To learn about IEEE arithmetic, see the 18-page Standard.
Audience – Application developers, system developers, architects, support engineers.
Required knowledge – Programming experience, software development testing, aptitude to build and compile software products
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