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From: beyer@houxs.UUCP (J.BEYER)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: FORTRAN Horror
Message-ID: <793@houxs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 88 13:26:43 GMT
References: <24861@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1135@pembina.UUCP> <25461@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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Summary: Single instruction not used.



The funny thing is that the CAS (Compare Accumulator with Storage) instruction
was not used by the  FORTRAN compiler for some reason. They used TZE and TPL
or something like that. There were both positive and negative zeros because
it  was a sign-magnitude machine. Maybe this was in floating point as well
(it's been a long time since I used a 704).

-- 
Jean-David Beyer
A.T.&T., Holmdel, New Jersey, 07733
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