Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:21:52 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Cc: cracauer@cons.org, dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907131021180.76301-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <99Jul13.191120est.40336@border.alcanet.com.au>
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On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> wrote: > >You might consider looking at the fp emulator which I wrote for the alpha. > >It should be accurate (I tested against the fpu on an x86) and contains > >test harness code which can be used to play with it on both x86 and alpha. > > Anyone interested in working on FP emulation (or checking the > shortcuts DEC made when then designed the Alpha) might like to > check out <http://www.netlib.org/fp/ucbtest.tar.gz>: fetch: ucbtest.tar.gz: www.netlib.org: HTTP server returned error code 404 Where's it really at? > > UCBTEST is a suite of programs for testing certain difficult cases of > IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic. Some of the difficult test cases are > obtained from number-theoretic algorithms developed by Turing Award winner > Prof. W. Kahan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, > University of California, Berkeley, as part of ongoing research into test > methods for computer arithmetic. > > Peter > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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