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From: culberts@hpccc.HP.COM (Bruce Culbertson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: MIPS Assembler Procedure
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Date: 26 Jun 89 20:54:17 GMT
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mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:

> 6) When we were doing this, we couldn't think of any languages whose
> natural implementation on a 32-bit machine would expect generation
> of a 64 by 32 bit divide as the expected operation.  Does anybody
> know of any such, or is thsi strictly something one would use in
> handcoded routines?

A frequently used application that occurs to me is conversion of floating
point numbers to text.  A mantissa of more than 32 bits must be divided
by 10 repeatedly to convert it from base 2 to base 10.

Bruce Culbertson
culberts@hplabs.hp.com