Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: floating point exceptions Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 22:26:19 GMT References: <1990Nov29.084840.5410@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <13899@june.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 25 In-reply-to: robertb@cs.washington.edu's message of 29 Nov 90 10:42:23 GMT In article <13899@june.cs.washington.edu> robertb@cs.washington.edu (Robert Bedichek) writes: | I doubt that they are in the public domain. I suggest that you ask | Moto's MCD (Microcomputer Division) in Tempe Az. for them. Maybe | they'll just give them to you. They were originally developed by the | chip folks in Austin Texas, but my guess is that it is no maintained | in Tempe. I remember when I was at Data General, the Motorola software was inadequate, and the software written at DG, migrated back to Motorola (and probably munged some more). | They do all sorts of things besides obscure IEEE conformance. Like, | they fix up floating to integer conversions that sometimes trap even | when the operand is not out of range. I had forgotten about this gem when I sent mail to somebody comparing MIPS and 88k from a compiler writer's viewpoint. If the number is >= 2**30 and <= 2**31 it traps. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?