Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ttrdc!levy
From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Microcode problem on 8600 processors
Summary: 8650 worked ok here
Message-ID: <2109@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 19:03:21 GMT
References: <8801170735.AA23357@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article <8801170735.AA23357@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, NED@YMIR.BITNET (Ned Freed) writes:
#>         .entry start,^m<r2,r3>
#> 
#>         movl    first,-(sp)
#>         movl    second,r0
#>         mulf2   r0,(sp)
#>         movl    (sp)+,r0
#>         ret
#> 
#> first:  .float  1.0e-14
#> second: .float  1.0e-27
#> 
#>         .end    start
#> 
#> The net result should then be a
#> "NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 000000" message reported as the program exits.
#> 
#> (5) I have not tried this program on an 8650, and I would be very interested
#>     to find out if this problem exists on that CPU. In fact, I would appreciate
#>     receiving reports of the results people get when they run this program on
#>     their systems, regardless of what type of CPU they have.

This works fine on our 8650 under VMS 4.5.
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