Commit c7ce2011 by Craig Burley

add reference to Goldberg addendum doc

From-SVN: r25159
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......@@ -11546,13 +11546,33 @@ Floating-Point Arithmetic', Computing Surveys, 23, March 1991, pp.@:
5--48. At the time of writing this is available online under
@uref{http://docs.sun.com} and there is a supplemented version at
@uref{http://www.validgh.com/}. Information related to the IEEE 754
floating point standard by a leading light can be found at
floating-point standard by a leading light can be found at
@uref{http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Ewkahan/ieee754status }; see also
slides from the short course referenced from
@uref{http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Efateman/}.
@uref{http://www.suburbia.net/%7Ebillm/floating-point/} has a brief
guide to IEEE 754, a somewhat x86 GNU/Linux-specific FAQ and library
code for GNU/Linux x86 systems.
Also see `Differences Among IEEE 754 Implementations' by
David Goldberg, available online at
@uref{http://www.validgh.com/goldberg/addendum.html}.
This document explores some of the issues surrounding computing
of extended (80-bit) results on processors such as the x86,
especially when those results are arbitrarily truncated
to 32-bit or 64-bit values by the compiler
as ``spills''.
@cindex spills of floating-point results
@cindex 80-bit spills
@cindex truncation of floating-point values
(@code{g77} specifically, and @code{gcc} generally, does
arbitrarily truncate 80-bit results during spills
as of this writing.
It is not yet clear whether a future version of
the GNU compiler suite will offer 80-bit spills
as an option, or as the default behavior.)
@c xref would be different between editions:
The GNU C library provides routines for controlling the FPU, and other
documentation about this.
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