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Subject: Help for F-PC and TCOM
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Date: 16 Apr 91 02:14:52 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 2,  Topic 15
Message   5       Wed Jun 13, 1990
R.SMITH44                    (Forwarded) 
 
Getting around the 8 deep stack in the 80x87.

  Based on a suggestion from someone (possibly Jack Brown) I have re-written
all of the code in HFLOAT and renamed it FFLOAT.SEQ for use with FPC.  I have
written it so that the user need not worry about the depth of the floating
point stack.  Each routine carefully checks and updates the stack depth as is
necessary.  If an overflow would otherwise occur, the appropriate data is
pushed onto a software stack. If the 80x87 needs additional data, it is popped
from the software stack.  The code is currently being tested by a few users. 
It is expected to be released in the near future
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