Subject: Re: IEEE math on Alpha
To: Andrew van der Stock <ajv@greebo.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/03/2001 08:41:51
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:38:47PM +1100, Andrew van der Stock wrote:

 > Here's a cool soft IEEE floating page.
 > 
 > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jhauser/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html

I believe this is what Ross is using as the basis for the FP completion
stuff for the Alpha.

The strategy is to make it as MI as possible, so that all other platforms
that need to do FP emulation can use it.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>