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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Green Hills 64 Bit Float Problem on PowerPC 603
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:43:06 +0100
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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
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[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.