Re: Rounding modes.

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From: Kirk Hays
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:06

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napi@jaring.ism.my (Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah) writes:
|> Is there any High Level Language which allows one to select the different
|> rounding modes as provided by the IEEE 754 floating point standard?

All the various members of the PL/M-x86 family allowed direct access to the
floating point modes of the IEEE compliant FPUs via a built-in variable.
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Kirk Hays
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From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
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Subject: Re: Rounding modes.
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