diff --git a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormat.java b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormat.java
index 7e61e34304..6b34dd3c10 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormat.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/main/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormat.java
@@ -169,21 +169,6 @@ public class FloatFormat {
 		return minValue;
 	}
 
-	// Create a double given sign, 8-byte normalized mantissa, and unbiased scale
-	static double createDouble(boolean sgn, long mantissa, int scale) {
-		long exp = scale + 1023;
-		long bits = mantissa >>> 11;// 11 = 64 (long size) - 52 (frac size)  - 1 (jbit))
-		if (exp != 1) { // normal
-			bits &= 0xfffffffffffffL;
-			bits |= exp << 52;
-		}
-
-		if (sgn) {
-			bits |= 0x8000000000000000L;
-		}
-		return Double.longBitsToDouble(bits);
-	}
-
 	FloatKind extractKind(long encoding) {
 		int exp = extractExponentCode(encoding);
 		if (exp == maxexponent) {
@@ -252,8 +237,7 @@ public class FloatFormat {
 
 	// set sign bit and return the result if size <= 8
 	private long setSign(long x, boolean sign) {
-		if (!sign)
-		 {
+		if (!sign) {
 			return x; // Assume bit is already zero
 		}
 		long mask = 1;
@@ -288,8 +272,7 @@ public class FloatFormat {
 
 	public BigFloat getBigZero(boolean sgn) {
 		return new BigFloat(effective_frac_size, exp_size, FloatKind.FINITE, sgn ? -1 : +1,
-			BigInteger.ZERO,
-			2 - (1 << (exp_size - 1)));
+			BigInteger.ZERO, 2 - (1 << (exp_size - 1)));
 	}
 
 	public BigInteger getBigInfinityEncoding(boolean sgn) {
@@ -387,7 +370,7 @@ public class FloatFormat {
 		int exp = extractExponentCode(encoding);
 		long frac = extractFractionalCode(encoding);
 		FloatKind kind = extractKind(encoding);
-	
+
 		int scale;
 		long unscaled = frac;
 		if (kind == FloatKind.FINITE) {
@@ -410,6 +393,16 @@ public class FloatFormat {
 
 	// Convert floating point encoding into host's double if size <= 8
 	public double decodeHostFloat(long encoding) {
+
+		if (size == 8) { // assume IEEE-754 8-byte format which matches Java double encoding
+			return Double.longBitsToDouble(encoding);
+		}
+
+		if (size > 8) {
+			throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+				"method not supported for float size of " + size);
+		}
+
 		boolean sgn = extractSign(encoding);
 		int exp = extractExponentCode(encoding);
 		long frac = extractFractionalCode(encoding);
@@ -428,15 +421,42 @@ public class FloatFormat {
 			return Double.NaN;
 		}
 
-		// Get unbiased scale and normalized mantissa
 		exp -= bias;
-		long mantissa = frac << (8 * 8 - frac_size);
-		if (!subnormal && jbitimplied) {
-			mantissa >>= 1; // Make room for 1 jbit
-			mantissa |= 0x8000000000000000L; // set bit in at top of normalized frac
+
+		long msbit = 1 << (frac_size - 1); // most-significant fractional/mantissa bit
+
+		if (!subnormal && !jbitimplied) {
+			frac &= ~msbit; // remove explicit jbit
+			frac <<= 1;
+			--exp;
 		}
 
-		return createDouble(sgn, mantissa, exp);
+		if (subnormal) {
+			// attempt to normalize
+			exp = -bias;
+
+			while (exp > -1023 && (frac & msbit) == 0 && frac != 0) {
+				frac <<= 1;
+				--exp;
+			}
+
+			// establish implied jbit
+			if (exp > -1023 && (frac & msbit) != 0 && frac != 0) {
+				frac <<= 1;
+			}
+			else {
+				--exp;
+			}
+
+			// mask-off implied jbit
+			frac &= ~-(1 << frac_size);
+		}
+
+		exp += 1023;
+		frac <<= 52 - frac_size;
+
+		long encodedDouble = (sgn ? (1L << 63) : 0) | ((long) exp << 52) | frac;
+		return Double.longBitsToDouble(encodedDouble);
 	}
 
 	public BigFloat decodeBigFloat(BigInteger encoding) {
@@ -1124,7 +1144,7 @@ public class FloatFormat {
 		fa.round();
 		return getEncoding(fa);
 	}
-	
+
 	public BigFloat getBigFloat(BigInteger value) {
 
 		if (size == 8) {
diff --git a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/test/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormatTest.java b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/test/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormatTest.java
index b789bcedaf..63e28b5259 100644
--- a/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/test/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormatTest.java
+++ b/Ghidra/Framework/SoftwareModeling/src/test/java/ghidra/pcode/floatformat/FloatFormatTest.java
@@ -32,21 +32,6 @@ public class FloatFormatTest extends AbstractGenericTest {
 		super();
 	}
 
-	@Test
-	public void testCreateFloat() {
-		int i = 0;
-		for (double x : BigFloatTest.testDoubleList) {
-			if (!Double.isFinite(x)) {
-				continue;
-			}
-			FloatFormat.SmallFloatData data = FloatFormat.getSmallFloatData(x);
-			double y = FloatFormat.createDouble(data.sign < 0,
-				data.unscaled << (64 - data.fracbits), data.scale);
-			Assert.assertEquals("case #" + Integer.toString(i), x, y, 0);
-			++i;
-		}
-	}
-
 	@Test
 	public void testGetEncodingMinval() {
 		FloatFormat ff = new FloatFormat(4);
@@ -269,6 +254,30 @@ public class FloatFormatTest extends AbstractGenericTest {
 		Assert.assertEquals(intbits, encoding.longValue());
 		Assert.assertEquals(big, ff.decodeBigFloat(encoding));
 
+		big = ff.getBigFloat(Float.MIN_VALUE);
+		encoding = ff.getEncoding(big);
+		intbits = Float.floatToRawIntBits(Float.MIN_VALUE);
+		Assert.assertEquals(intbits, encoding.longValue());
+		Assert.assertEquals(Float.MIN_VALUE, (float) ff.decodeHostFloat(intbits), 0);
+
+		big = ff.getBigFloat(Float.MAX_VALUE);
+		encoding = ff.getEncoding(big);
+		intbits = Float.floatToRawIntBits(Float.MAX_VALUE);
+		Assert.assertEquals(intbits, encoding.longValue());
+		Assert.assertEquals(Float.MAX_VALUE, (float) ff.decodeHostFloat(intbits), 0);
+
+		big = ff.getBigFloat(-Float.MIN_VALUE);
+		encoding = ff.getEncoding(big);
+		intbits = Float.floatToRawIntBits(-Float.MIN_VALUE);
+		Assert.assertEquals(intbits, (int) encoding.longValue());
+		Assert.assertEquals(-Float.MIN_VALUE, (float) ff.decodeHostFloat(intbits), 0);
+
+		big = ff.getBigFloat(-Float.MAX_VALUE);
+		encoding = ff.getEncoding(big);
+		intbits = Float.floatToRawIntBits(-Float.MAX_VALUE);
+		Assert.assertEquals(intbits, (int) encoding.longValue());
+		Assert.assertEquals(-Float.MAX_VALUE, (float) ff.decodeHostFloat(intbits), 0);
+
 		f = 3.75f;
 		intbits = Float.floatToRawIntBits(f);
 		big = ff.getBigFloat(f);
@@ -430,6 +439,12 @@ public class FloatFormatTest extends AbstractGenericTest {
 		Assert.assertEquals(intbits, encoding);
 		Assert.assertEquals(f, (float) ff.decodeHostFloat(encoding), 0);
 
+		intbits = 1; // smallest subnormal value
+		Assert.assertEquals(Float.MIN_VALUE, (float) ff.decodeHostFloat(intbits), 0);
+
+		intbits = 0x80000001; // smallest subnormal value
+		Assert.assertEquals(-Float.MIN_VALUE, (float) ff.decodeHostFloat(intbits), 0);
+
 		f = 8.908155E-39f;
 		intbits = Float.floatToRawIntBits(f);
 		encoding = ff.getEncoding(f);
@@ -1473,11 +1488,10 @@ public class FloatFormatTest extends AbstractGenericTest {
 
 		doTestValueOfBigInteger(BigDecimal.valueOf(2.1234567890123456789e123));
 		doTestValueOfBigInteger(BigDecimal.valueOf(2.1234567890123456789e123).negate());
-		
+
 		// NOTE: BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.MAX_VALUE) produces a value greater than Double.MAX_VALUE		
 		// doTestValueOfBigInteger(BigDecimal.valueOf(Double.MAX_VALUE));
 
-
 		BigFloat bf = ff.decodeBigFloat(Double.doubleToRawLongBits(Double.MAX_VALUE));
 		bf = ff.getBigFloat(bf.toBigInteger());
 		assertEquals("1.797693134862316E+308", ff.toDecimalString(bf));
@@ -1640,14 +1654,12 @@ public class FloatFormatTest extends AbstractGenericTest {
 			ff.toDecimalString(ff.decodeBigFloat(0x0065006700610050L)));
 		assertEquals("2.123456789012346",
 			ff.toDecimalString(ff.decodeBigFloat(0x4000FCD6E9BA37B3L)));
-		assertEquals("0.3",
-			ff.toDecimalString(ff.decodeBigFloat(0x3FD3333333333333L)));
+		assertEquals("0.3", ff.toDecimalString(ff.decodeBigFloat(0x3FD3333333333333L)));
 	}
 
 	@Test
 	public void testFloatDecodeWithToString() {
 		FloatFormat ff = FloatFormatFactory.getFloatFormat(4);
-		assertEquals("-1.4682312",
-			ff.toDecimalString(ff.decodeBigFloat(0xbfbbef00L), true));
+		assertEquals("-1.4682312", ff.toDecimalString(ff.decodeBigFloat(0xbfbbef00L), true));
 	}
 }