Re: Rounding with Div and Mod operators

Barton <r_barton1@hotmail.com>
27 May 1999 00:42:22 -0400

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From: Barton <r_barton1@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 27 May 1999 00:42:22 -0400
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References: 99-05-039 99-05-050 99-05-113
Keywords: arithmetic, standards

    Barton <r_barton1@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org> wrote:
> >
> > They talk about a "Language-Compatible Arithmetic Standard (LCAS)",
> > I don't know what happened to this beast.
>
> The name was changed to Language Independent Arithmetic (LIA).
> Part 1 (ISO 10967-1) covers integer and floating point arithmetic.
> It defines two integer division operations, divf (flooring) and
> divt (truncating), with corresponding remainder operations for each.


    I found the URL for this standard, in case anyone is interested:
ftp://crl.dec.com/pub/misc/lia-1-is.ps.Z
    It's a big one, about 650K uncompressed.

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