Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima] Out of range floating point number determination

[Raymond Toy]

>>>>> "Camm" == Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

    Camm> Greetings, and thanks!
    Camm> Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:

    >> Don't know about the value fop or foff regs.  But as I understand it,
    >> the sse instructions signal exceptions at the offending instruction,
    >> unlike x87 where the exception is signaled at the *next* x87
    >> instruction.  Hence, you need the fop and fooff regs to tell you what
    >> the offending instruction actually is.  I think; I haven't looked at
    >> that stuff in decades, probably.

    Camm> Exactly.  The code needs to look at the instruction pointer contents 
in
    Camm> case of SSE.  fop is not zeroed out in this case, so I suppose either
    Camm> differentially examining the status words for the two fpus, or 
decoding
    Camm> the instruction pointer and defaulting to fop if an x87 instruction,
    Camm> would suffice.

Oh, you don't know if you're using x87 or sse at runtime?  You should
be able to tell at compile time, right?  Isn't something like __SSE2
defined (with gcc) when compiling if sse2 instructions are being used?

    Camm> All of this is identical on i386 and amd64, to my understanding.

I believe so, except I think amd64 might have more xmm registers.

Ray