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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