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Article #12096Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper)
From: peter da silva
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 17:45
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 17:45
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In article <9106112357.AA18157@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, jbs@WATSON.IBM.COM writes: > Of course one way people have managed in the past [to handle 80 bit registers on context switches] > is to only save and restore the first 64 bits of the register. In my > view this demonstrates excessive imagination. Another popular technique is to use a single-tasking system and to crash on floating point stack overflows. -- Peter da Silva; Ferranti International Controls Corporation; +1 713 274 5180; Sugar Land, TX 77487-5012; `-_-' "Have you hugged your wolf, today?"
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Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Subject: Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper) Message-ID: <XB-BQ9H@xds13.ferranti.com> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation References: <9106112357.AA18157@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 17:45:51 GMT