ForthNet@willett.UUCP (ForthNet articles from GEnie) (06/16/90)
Category 10, Topic 10 Message 11 Wed Jun 13, 1990 R.SMITH44 at 20:52 PDT Getting around the 8 deep stack in the 80x87. Based on a suggestion from someone (possibly Jack Brown) I have re-written all of the code in HFLOAT and renamed it FFLOAT.SEQ for use with FPC. I have written it so that the user need not worry about the depth of the floating point stack. Each routine carefully checks and updates the stack depth as is necessary. If an overflow would otherwise occur, the appropriate data is pushed onto a software stack. If the 80x87 needs additional data, it is popped from the software stack. The code is currently being tested by a few users. It is expected to be released in the near future ----- This message came from GEnie via willett through a semi-automated process. Report problems to: uunet!willett!dwp or willett!dwp@hobbes.cert.sei.cmu.edu