----Original Message----
>From: Paul Koning
>Sent: 15 April 2005 17:56
>>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Dave> Doesn't the C language spec require the mode to be switchable
> Dave> at runtime?
>
> Dave> In any case, the ARM or Alpha isn't prevented from working in
> Dave> such a fashion just because the rounding mode is encoded in the
> Dave> instruction; it just means that fp primitives have to be
> Dave> compiled as intrinsics that test whatever flag controls the
> Dave> rounding mode and then branch to an fp insn of the appropriate
> Dave> form.
>
> That only works if the notion of switchable rounding mode exists.
I'm not sure. Either you don't get me, or I don't get you, but what I
thought I was describing was a way of working around the lack of a
switchable mode by compiling the code both ways with a runtime test of a
flag.
cheers,
DaveK
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