Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Vector processors, i860 Message-ID: Date: 12 Feb 91 18:49:08 GMT References: <1991Feb3.061217.21988@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb03.082253.12458@kithrup.COM> <1991Feb3.223732.3581@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Feb8.144035.1076@Stardent.COM> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 16 In-reply-to: pc@Stardent.COM's message of 8 Feb 91 14:40:35 GMT In article <1991Feb8.144035.1076@Stardent.COM> pc@Stardent.COM (Paul Cantrell) writes: | I've never looked at the 88000 exception code, but I'm told that it is | quite complex as well. The major difference that I see is that all the | people I've talked to who are using 88000 say that the exception code as | provided by Motorola works fine, and they never had to modify it. The exception code provided by Motorola may be reasonable now, but the original exception code did not properly handle NaN's, denorms, and such. -- 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?