From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: IEEE fp & Java
Date: 1996/12/02
Date: 1996-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.849554220@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SUN.3.95.961202015240.14089B-100000@eskimo.com
Clayton said
"Wasn't there a long cross-posted thread back in winter '93-'94 about an
ambiguity in the IEEE fp standard that left parts of the standard
implementation-defined re: rounding intermediate results? I don't recall
the details, perhaps someone else reading here does. Was that ambiguity
a factor in the Alpha and Mips fp designs?"
That involves a very subtle point regarding rounding in some unusual cases,
where indeed there is a one-bit ambiguity depending on where rounded is
done in the denormal case. However, this has nothing whatsoever to do with
DEC's anbd SGI's decision not to proper support denormals *at all*.
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-27 0:00 Warning: Flame Bait Paul Whittington
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-02 0:00 ` IEEE fp & Java Clayton Weaver
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-12-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-11-30 0:00 ` Warning: Flame Bait Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Tom Robinson
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