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In article <28764@winchester.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
>Bottom line:
>	Precise exceptions are precise; truly imprecise ones are rare;
>	there's a wide variation in the middle of the effort needed to
>	make them look precise.

Of course, the CDC 7600 had not
only imprecise exceptions, but also "delayed exceptions" (is there a
name) when certain floating point conditions produced an indefinite,
which was an *error* at the point you *used* it in another operation,
millions of instructions later...

I don't remember imprecise exceptions being that big a deal, although
it did create a small cottage industry for debugging certain difficult
programs :-)


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