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Re: Support for non-default rounding modes in the softfloat layer



On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:28:47PM +0200, ольга крыжановская wrote:
> A lot of scientific software uses non-default rounding modes as
> optimisation short cut. but then this is software which runs on high
> end hardware a la SPARC T5, SPARC64, NEC SX9 or the very latest
> IA32/AMD64 hardware.

Note that performance concerns are part of why I raised this question.

Joerg



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