Which values do you want that are not provided by DD'+(INF)' or DB'(QNAN)' ?
On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 10:03:20 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >This post is a specialized one that will be of interrest only to those >who work with binary and/or decimal floating-point values in assembly >language. > >I am in the process of extending some table-generation machinery to >support the use of >1) positive and negative infinities, which compare larger and smaller >than other values, and 2) NaNs (Not-a-Number values), both signaling >and quiet ones, which are useful, among other things, as placeholders >for missing or uninitialized table elements. > >These special values all have defined hardware representations, and I >now come to my question. Are there plans to provide mechanisms for >generating these special values using the HLASM without resorting to >bit-string constructions? > >Peter Elderon and his PL/I group have provided BIFs and the like for >doing so; there is reason that something like these facilities is or >will be available in C; and it would be very convenient to have a >standard assembly-language facility for doing so too. > >John Gilmore - Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
