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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!spdcc!iecc!compilers-sender
  3. From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.compilers
  5. Subject: Re: Rounding modes.
  6. Keywords: arithmetic, PL/M
  7. Message-ID: <92-08-176@comp.compilers>
  8. Date: 28 Aug 92 20:06:41 GMT
  9. Article-I.D.: comp.92-08-176
  10. References: <92-08-168@comp.compilers>
  11. Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
  12. Reply-To: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
  13. Organization: Intel Supercomputer Systems Division
  14. Lines: 12
  15. Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
  16.  
  17. napi@jaring.ism.my (Mohd Hanafiah Abdullah) writes:
  18. |> Is there any High Level Language which allows one to select the different
  19. |> rounding modes as provided by the IEEE 754 floating point standard?
  20.  
  21. All the various members of the PL/M-x86 family allowed direct access to the
  22. floating point modes of the IEEE compliant FPUs via a built-in variable.
  23. -- 
  24. Kirk Hays
  25. hays@ssd.intel.com
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