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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
Subject: Re: Green Hills 64 Bit Float Problem on PowerPC 603
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:43:06 +0100
Date: 2001-03-29T08:43:06+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ac2e5ba@pull.gecm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3AC264E3.742D050E@kg.hsanet.net

Just guessing, but has it choosen 424 bytes as this is "mod 8 = 0" long,
long word aligned?

Isn't the simplest way to resolve this question just to insert a few known
values do some
maths and check the results?

DPH <kgclg15@kg.hsanet.net> wrote in message
news:3AC264E3.742D050E@kg.hsanet.net...
[snip]
> Complicating the analysis is the fact that the message is 4 bytes longer
> than it should be.  That is, representation specifications say it should
> be 420 bytes long, but it is 424 bytes long.  No, I haven't been able to
> figure out where the extra 4 bytes are located.






  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-29  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-28 22:25 Green Hills 64 Bit Float Problem on PowerPC 603 DPH
2001-03-29  7:43 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2001-03-29  9:53   ` DPH
2001-03-29 11:08     ` Martin Dowie
2001-03-31 21:29     ` Gleason
2001-03-31  5:50 ` Phaedrus
2001-04-01  3:22   ` DPH
2001-04-01  3:23   ` DPH
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