Sujet : Re: Making Lemonade (Floating-point format changes)
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 11. Jun 2024, 06:58:21
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On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 11:20:14 +0300, Niklas Holsti wrote:
You can also do it the other way around: always compile a function call,
but on a machine that has an FPU use a dummy emulation library that
back-patches the call to become an FPU instruction, so that each
emulation function is called at most once.
To be honest, I'm not sure which way around the HP 2100 used.
Hmm, maybe that was the way round it was done on the Mac as well, and I am
misremembering.