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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: Re: trapping speculative ops (LONG)
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
- References: <1992Aug31.224611.5196@odin.diku.dk> <1992Sep1.143155.636@bcars64a.bnr.ca> <1992Sep9.121701.13208@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:45:11 GMT
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- Isn't this (extra bits for exceptions) basically the whole point of NaNs and
- Infinities in IEEE FP? Is the IEEE method inadequate, or would it be reasonable
- to simply ignore FP interrupts and check for NaNs (assuming integer arithmetic
- has low enough latency it isn't a problem)?
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