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Subject: Re: Things compilers never need ( was R
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Date: 28 Apr 89 15:54:00 GMT
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From article <38971@bbn.COM>, by slackey@bbn.com (Stan Lackey):
> 
> I have a real problem with anything that includes IEEE floating point
> AND calls itself a RISC.  IEEE FP violates every rule of RISC; it has
					     ^^^^^^^^^^
> features that compilers will never use (rounding modes), features that

Just 6 months ago we were arguing about "What is the definition of
RISC?"  Now (apprently) it is so cut-and-dried there are rules.  Just
what are "the rules" of RISC?  8-)