[libre-riscv-dev] funding for work on algebraics
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at lkcl.net
Tue Oct 15 03:14:09 BST 2019
On Tuesday, October 15, 2019, Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com>
wrote:
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> Sounds good, though I think we should have different bindings to avoid
> needing global variables for rounding mode, exceptions, and similar.
> I'm thinking we add a FPEnv type that holds all of that and all the FP
> number types have a reference to the FPEnv type. That way, we can
> avoid needing to pass the FPEnv to all the operations, we only need to
> pass it to the operations that produce a FP number without any FP
> numbers as input (mostly type conversions from integer or bits).
Good idea. Globals bad.
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