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From: Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>
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Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the
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Saturated math on *any* bounds? How would you do that? It would mean 
having to somehow include the bounds on every math operation. ("add X, 
Y, LB, UB" or something similar) It would be cool if you could do that, 
but there would be obvious speed penalties and difficult instruction 
sets for compilers to target.

MDC

Dale Stanbrough wrote:
> Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure that the PowerPC chip's Altivec instruction has this.
> 
> yes, google says...
> 
>    http://e-www.motorola.com/brdata/PDFDB/docs/ALTIVECPIM.pdf
> 
> which indicates saturated maths is for integral types.
> 
> Dale


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