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Re: SANE calls



>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Wurcer <Scott.Wurcer@analog.com> writes:

    >>  Yes, that's exactly right.  Floating point could even be a lot
    >> faster than it is, but we just don't have time to work on
    >> optimizing SANE right now.

    Scott> How does executor handle the 96 bit extended format ? I
    Scott> have noticed differences on some computations. Namely ones
    Scott> that return -0 from SANE and "?" under E/L. I haven't had
    Scott> time to document the exact computations though.

The "96 bit extended format" is really 80-bit IEEE with 16 bits of
zeros thrown in.  The 80387 also supports 80-bit floating point so we
just use it to do the computations.

-Mat