It’s even more fun when you have to support multiple floating point formats. I wrote an 8-bit assembler that supports IEEE-754 (because there’s a ROM that implements it for the 8-bit CPU), and the Microsoft Binary Format (because the BASIC that comes with the computer is from Microsoft, and it came out prior to IEEE-754 was standardized). Fun times.
It’s even more fun when you have to support multiple floating point formats. I wrote an 8-bit assembler that supports IEEE-754 (because there’s a ROM that implements it for the 8-bit CPU), and the Microsoft Binary Format (because the BASIC that comes with the computer is from Microsoft, and it came out prior to IEEE-754 was standardized). Fun times.
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