montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) (06/14/90)
I used to have a program (called "machine", I believe) that displayed useful information about the machine your were running it on, things like its endianness, type of arithmetic (twos- or -one-complement), word size, and so forth. I no longer have that program and find myself in need of such a beast. I've grep the c.s.u and c.s.m archive inidexes for things like "*mach*" and "*arch*", but to no avail. If anyone has a pointer to such a program, I'd appreciate an email note. I will summarize if there is enough interest. Thanks, -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)
mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) (06/14/90)
For floating-point, the program MACHAR from netlib might be just the ticket:
MACHAR
machar.f Fortran 77 source. Both single- and double-precision
versions can be extracted from the supplied source
code with simple editing changes. NOTE: at least one
version MUST be extracted before the source will compile.
macharc C source for machar and a driver. Float and double
versions are selected with compiler directives.
MACHAR is an evolving subroutine for dynamically determining thirteen
fundamental parameters associated with floating-point arithmetic. The
original version was published in Cody and Waite, Software Manual for
the Elementary Functions, Prentice-Hall, 1980. The present version has
been modified to operate correctly with IEEE floating-point arithmetic.
It will malfunction on many CRAY and most CYBER systems, however. See
W. J. Cody, "MACHAR: A subroutine to dynamicall determine machine
parameters," TOMS 14, December, 1988 for details.
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-- Mark Johnson
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(408) 524-8308 mark@mips.com {or ...!decwrl!mips!mark}montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) (06/15/90)
Thanks to all the people who responded to my query with references to config. FYI, the latest version appears to be 4.2, dated in 1990. I will send it to anyone who's interested. -- Skip (montanaro@crdgw1.ge.com)