IEEE floating point (fwd)

Tom MacDonald uunet!tamarack.cray.com!tam
Fri Dec 18 10:30:46 PST 1992


If anyone can help Dick Hendrickson I know he'd appreciate it.

> From hendrickaacset.be Fri Dec 18 11:38:07 1992
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:50:59 +0100
> From: hendrickaacset.be (Dick Hendrickson)
> Message-Id: <9212181650.AA28767aacset>
> To: tamacray.com, x3j3ancsa.uiuc.edu
> Subject: IEEE floating point
> 
> This isn't exactly a Fortran question, but I'm sure somebody
> out there knows the answer.  I'd like to find some routines
> that simulate/emulate IEEE floating point arithmetic using
> integer (and logical and shifting and ...) operations.  
> 
> Does anybody know of anything like this?  I'd like something
> in some reasonably portable language (which given the nature
> of the problem probably means C) and I'm willing to do some
> tuning and modification to match our hardware.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dick



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