Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request
From: jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu (James J. Szinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Quadruple precision on SPARC
Keywords: Miscellaneous
Message-ID: <2799@brchh104.bnr.ca>
Date: 10 May 91 13:03:00 GMT
Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 13
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
X-Original-Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 10:08:14 GMT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 100, message 3
X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu

Does anyone out there know how to access the SPARC's quad precision
floating point math.  I know how to do it in assembly, but it's really
ugly.  I could also write a C++ class to do it but that's too much work if
it's been done already.  I need only the basic arithmetic opereations
which are supported by the FPU: add, subtract, multiply, divide, etc.  If
you can help, please send e-mail.

James J. Szinger                  Becton Center
jim@fuji.eng.yale.edu             15 Prospect Street
Intelligent Sensors Lab.          Box 2157 Yale Station
Electrical Engineering            New Haven, Connecticut 06520
Yale University                   U.S.A.