robin wrote:
> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:vYypf.39224$L7.37622@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>The guard digit was added to double precision, postnormalization was
>>added to the HER and HDR instructions, and the behavior of overflow and
>>underflow was altered.
> The HE, HER, HD, HDR set was a glaring design error - a faux pas.
> That it failed to post-normalise meant that it couldn't be used
> in a loop to divide by, say, 32.
Well, first there are no HE or HD instructions.
I am pretty sure that HER and HDR will, and always have, done a
one digit ****ft when needed. It might be that they won't normalize
a previously unnormalized number, but in that rare case using AER
or some other that will normalize should be fine.
(snip)
-- glen
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