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Re: [fpu] Rounding Again



On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Rudolf Usselmann wrote:

> Here is what I got from all the books:
> 
> 1) You take the operands, increase the precision by
>    appending 3 zeros at the right. (So your fractions
>    are now 23+3=26 bits wide)
> 2) Preshift (Normalize).
> 3) Add
> 4) Normalize (count leading zeros and shift)
>    The shifted result shifted in to GRS, if shifted right
>    (where S is sticky), otherwise GRS are zero (and ignored).
> 
> Is this correct so far ???
> What do I do next ?
>

I'll take a look in some books later tonight. Maybe I'll come up with
something.

--damjan