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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5586 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:49:59 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!think.com!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] GCC 2.3.2 floating point problems Date: 27 Dec 1992 21:59:41 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 23 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1hl90dINNjsh@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1hklblINN7rb@life.ai.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu In article <1hklblINN7rb@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: > > ldexp() is such a trivial function that I don't know why it wasn't > just coded in assembly language. With foot halfway in mouth, I point out that I missed a trivial optimization: #include "DEFS.h" ENTRY(ldexp) fildl 12(%esp) fldl 4(%esp) fscale fstp %st(1) ret -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!