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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: IEEE arithmetic (Goldberg paper)
Message-ID: <XB-BQ9H@xds13.ferranti.com>
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
References: <9106112357.AA18157@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 91 17:45:51 GMT

In article <9106112357.AA18157@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, jbs@WATSON.IBM.COM writes:
> Of course one way people have managed in the past [to handle 80 bit registers
  on context switches]
> is to only save and restore the first 64 bits of the register.  In my
> view this demonstrates excessive imagination.

Another popular technique is to use a single-tasking system and to crash on
floating point stack overflows.
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