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Re: ANSWER: algorithm to perform 64-bit / 32-bit signed & unsigned divide

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From: Noah Green
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 23:42
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In article <348a5a$dhs@haven.umd.edu>, Charles B. Cranston
<zben@ni.umd.edu> wrote:

> These are my first two assembly language programs on the power PC.
> dmult multiplies two 32 bit numbers to get a 64 bit result,
> ddiv divides a 32 bit number into a 64 bit number to get a 32 bit result.
> it probably needs to be protected from overflow...
> 
Thanks for posting that. It's really interesting to see PPC Assembly code;
you may all be laughing at me, but I've never seen it before. It looks a
lot like MIPS assembly --- very interesting, thanks.
noah
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