Do any real-world CPUs not use IEEE 754?

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Other than flawed Pentiums, any x86 or x64-based CPU is using IEEE 754 as their floating-point arithmetic standard.

Here are a brief overview of the FPA standards and their adoptions.

IEEE 754:       Intel x86, and all RISC systems (IBM Power
                and PowerPC, Compaq/DEC Alpha, HP PA-RISC,
                Motorola 68xxx and 88xxx, SGI (MIPS) R-xxxx,
                Sun SPARC, and others);

VAX:            Compaq/DEC

IBM S/390:      IBM (however, in 1998, IBM added an IEEE 754
                option to S/390)

Cray:           X-MP, Y-MP, C-90; other Cray models have been
                based on Alpha and SPARC processors with
                IEEE-754 arithmetic.

Unless your planning on supporting your library on fairly exotic CPU architectures, it is safe to assume that for now 99% of CPUs are IEEE 754 compliant.

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