From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 14:20:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeeds.ihug.co.nz!ihug.co.nz!ken-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!not-for-mail From: Dale Stanbrough Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Saturated Math References: <3ECFF541.1010705@attbi.com> <3ED0B820.5050603@noplace.com> <3ED2096F.3020800@noplace.com> <3ED353BE.40605@noplace.com> <3ED4A323.3000909@noplace.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.3b1 (PPC Mac OS X) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 21:19:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.47.50 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1054156777 144.132.47.50 (Thu, 29 May 2003 07:19:37 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 07:19:37 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37945 Date: 2003-05-28T21:19:37+00:00 List-Id: Randy Brukardt wrote: > Since there is no hardware > support for these types, everything is a batch of code anyway; it might > as well be done with an in-lined subprogram. There is hardware support for saturated types with integral sizes. I posted an example a couple of days ago - the PowerPC Altivec instructions. I would guess that other SIMD instruction sets would have something similar. dale