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From: payne@watdcsu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: instructions in the Vax not used by Unix assembler
Message-ID: <3767@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 10:56:33 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 10:56:33 1987
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Reply-To: payne@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Doug Payne)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: quad-precision , assembler , vax
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In article <597@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU> llave@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU (Rafael Llave) writes:
>The vax architecture manual mentions several instructions that
>would be very useful such as: quadruple precision and 
>evaluation of polynomials.

Try looking at some of the Run-Time Library stuff. VOL 8B pp 9.9-9-16 gives
an overview of RTL routines that 'provide access to VAX machine
instructions'. Examples are LIB$POLYn, LIB$EMODn, etc. They're C callable.

Doug