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Article #20947Re: Things compilers never need ( was R
From: gillies
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 15:54
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1989 15:54
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From article <38971@bbn.COM>, by slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey): > > I have a real problem with anything that includes IEEE floating point > AND calls itself a RISC. IEEE FP violates every rule of RISC; it has ^^^^^^^^^^ > features that compilers will never use (rounding modes), features that Just 6 months ago we were arguing about "What is the definition of RISC?" Now (apprently) it is so cut-and-dried there are rules. Just what are "the rules" of RISC? 8-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Things compilers never need ( was R Message-ID: <76700067@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Apr 89 15:54:00 GMT References: <4641@uklirb.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:uklirb.UUCP:4641:p.cs.uiuc.edu:76700067:000:478 Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Apr 28 10:54:00 1989