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Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project

From: Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>
To: Duncan Sands <duncan dot sands at math dot u-psud dot fr>
Cc: Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Fu, Chao-Ying" <fu at mips dot com>, "Thekkath, Radhika" <radhika at mips dot com>, "Stephens, Nigel" <nigel at mips dot com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:05:52 +0200
Subject: Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
References: <3CB54817FDF733459B230DD27C690CEC012BB135@Exchange.mips.com> <200609220924.28577.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr> <20060922073846.GA46245@adacore.com> <200609221009.04327.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 10:09 +0200, Duncan Sands wrote:
> I mean that no use is made of special hardware support.  This is in
> analogy to "floating point emulation", for processors with no fp support.

IIRC, hardware integer overflow support access from the code generator
would be useful too for Ada (currently checks are expensive so enabled
only by the -gnato flag and done by the front end).

Laurent

References:
- Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
  - From: Fu, Chao-Ying
- Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
  - From: Duncan Sands
- Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
  - From: Arnaud Charlet
- Re: Fixed-Point Arithmetic Project
  - From: Duncan Sands

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