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Re: new alpha division routines

From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:54:40 -0800
Subject: Re: new alpha division routines
References: <20040327004755.GA10079@redhat.com> <20040327091646.A7914@saruman.uio.no>

On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 09:16:46AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> I believe I have read somewhere that the alpha floating point
> operations were not IEEE compatible, and that this was the reason
> Tru64 Unix supplied the libieee library.  Am I wrong or did this
> change?

You are wrong.

> I guess my real question is if you are sure the results from the
> calculations are the same with your change.

Yes.


r~

References:
- new alpha division routines
  - From: Richard Henderson
- Re: new alpha division routines
  - From: Petter Reinholdtsen

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