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RE: recent troubles with float vectors & bitwise ops


On 24 August 2007 17:04, Andrew Pinski wrote:

> On 8/24/07, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> Let "a" and "b" be floating-point operands of type F, where F is a
>> floating-point type.  Let N be the number of bytes in F.  Then, "a | b"
>> is defined as:
> 
> Yes that makes sense, not.  Since most of the time, you have a mask
> and that is what is being used.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word.

>  Like masking the the sign bit or
> doing a selection.  The mask is most likely a NaN anyways so having
> that undefined just does not make sense.  

  What are you talking about?  I can't even parse this rant.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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