new alpha division routines

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Sun Mar 28 12:33:00 GMT 2004


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~



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