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Re: expand and truncate and 387


On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 09:59:24AM -0700, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>   In message <19981123175442.47382@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>you write:
>   > We can IMO ignore extensions, since there is no way to do them anyway (it
>   > is not neccesary, since all values are already extended).
> That is *NOT* the impression I've gotten from the other messages on this
> thread.

As I understand it, all values in fp registers exist in the 80-bit
extended double format.  One may twiddle fpcr bits to change where
rounding happens, but that does not affect the overall format.

I believe extensions to be a no-op.


r~


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