Floating Point-The Results Are In!

Brian D Chase bdc at world.std.com
Sun May 10 18:17:06 AEST 1998


On Fri, 8 May 1998, Ed G. wrote:

> > I'll believe this when you pinpoint the instructions.
> 
> Your skepticism spurred me to examine a Unix utility in depth to see 
> whether my results hold up.  They do.

Is it possible that you're mistakenly disassembling embedded data as if it
were code?  And perhaps that those data items contain arrangements of byte
values which translate to FP instructions?

-brian.
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