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author | Craig Burley <burley@gcc.gnu.org> | 1999-02-11 16:40:48 -0500 |
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committer | Craig Burley <burley@gcc.gnu.org> | 1999-02-11 16:40:48 -0500 |
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add reference to Goldberg addendum doc
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diff --git a/gcc/f/g77.texi b/gcc/f/g77.texi index 5ac0a72..5bb02cc 100644 --- a/gcc/f/g77.texi +++ b/gcc/f/g77.texi @@ -11546,13 +11546,33 @@ Floating-Point Arithmetic', Computing Surveys, 23, March 1991, pp.@: 5--48. At the time of writing this is available online under @uref{http://docs.sun.com} and there is a supplemented version at @uref{http://www.validgh.com/}. Information related to the IEEE 754 -floating point standard by a leading light can be found at +floating-point standard by a leading light can be found at @uref{http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Ewkahan/ieee754status }; see also slides from the short course referenced from @uref{http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Efateman/}. @uref{http://www.suburbia.net/%7Ebillm/floating-point/} has a brief guide to IEEE 754, a somewhat x86 GNU/Linux-specific FAQ and library code for GNU/Linux x86 systems. + +Also see `Differences Among IEEE 754 Implementations' by +David Goldberg, available online at +@uref{http://www.validgh.com/goldberg/addendum.html}. +This document explores some of the issues surrounding computing +of extended (80-bit) results on processors such as the x86, +especially when those results are arbitrarily truncated +to 32-bit or 64-bit values by the compiler +as ``spills''. + +@cindex spills of floating-point results +@cindex 80-bit spills +@cindex truncation of floating-point values +(@code{g77} specifically, and @code{gcc} generally, does +arbitrarily truncate 80-bit results during spills +as of this writing. +It is not yet clear whether a future version of +the GNU compiler suite will offer 80-bit spills +as an option, or as the default behavior.) + @c xref would be different between editions: The GNU C library provides routines for controlling the FPU, and other documentation about this. |