From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Robert L Krawitz <rlk@tiac.net>, yotam_medini@avanticorp.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: wish: optimize (x > 0.) floating point comparison.
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 21:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19980923212543.D27280@dot.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199809222048.QAA17629@rlk-ppp-1.torrent.com>
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 04:48:35PM -0400, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> BTW, there's another issue, which cuts both ways: FP numbers in the
> FPU have more precision and range (64/15) than FP numbers in memory
> (52/11).
Keep that intel-centric abortion to yourself. Sparc doesn't do that.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-23 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-22 19:31 Yotam Medini
1998-09-22 16:05 ` Robert L Krawitz
1998-09-23 21:30 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
1998-09-24 10:37 ` Joe Buck
1998-09-25 2:09 ` Branko Cibej
1998-09-25 2:09 ` Richard Henderson
1998-09-22 19:59 ` Robert L Krawitz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-09-26 15:59 N8TM
1998-09-26 15:59 Charles M. Hannum
1998-09-28 3:19 ` Andreas Schwab
1998-09-26 7:00 Charles M. Hannum
1998-09-26 10:41 ` Richard Henderson
1998-09-26 0:52 N8TM
1998-09-26 0:52 ` Richard Henderson
1998-09-28 3:19 ` Andreas Schwab
1998-09-23 20:50 N8TM
1998-09-23 9:38 Yotam Medini
1998-09-23 21:30 ` Richard Henderson
1998-09-22 9:00 Yotam Medini
1998-09-22 14:32 ` Robert L Krawitz
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