RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-25 Thread Ron Kreymborg
The SoftFloat for AVR demo is now on the web at http://www.jennaron.com.au/avr/SoftFloat.html. While not that useful in itself, it could be a jumping off point. Ron E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.11410

RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-23 Thread Ron Kreymborg
I have implemented for AVRs the 32-bit single precision and 64-bit double precision floating point types from John Hauser's SoftFloat package http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html. This is a full IEC/IEEE implementation and provides all arithmetic functions including square root. While

RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Ron Kreymborg
To: Ron Kreymborg Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles You might want to repost your request to the list. It came across as noname.txt attachment. Heliostats is for Sun tracking? Why would that take 64 bits? On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Ron Kreymborg r...@jennaron.com.au wrote

RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Weddington, Eric
-Original Message- From: avr-libc-dev-bounces+eweddington=cso.atmel@nongnu.org [mailto:avr-libc-dev-bounces+eweddington=cso.atmel@nongnu. org] On Behalf Of Ron Kreymborg Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:03 AM To: avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org Subject: [avr-libc-dev]

RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Ron Kreymborg
-Original Message- From: Weddington, Eric [mailto:ewedding...@cso.atmel.com] Sent: Sunday, 21 December 2008 6:00 AM To: Ron Kreymborg; avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org Subject: RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles -Original Message- From: avr-libc-dev-bounces+eweddington

Re: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Preston Wilson
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Re: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Dave N6NZ
Ron Kreymborg wrote: -Original Message- From: Weddington, Eric [mailto:ewedding...@cso.atmel.com] Sent: Sunday, 21 December 2008 6:00 AM To: Ron Kreymborg; avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org Subject: RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles -Original Message- From: avr-libc-dev-bounces

Re: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Preston Wilson
Dave N6NZ wrote: Ron Kreymborg wrote: -Original Message- From: Weddington, Eric [mailto:ewedding...@cso.atmel.com] Sent: Sunday, 21 December 2008 6:00 AM To: Ron Kreymborg; avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org Subject: RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles -Original Message- From

RE: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Weddington, Eric
-Original Message- From: avr-libc-dev-bounces+eweddington=cso.atmel@nongnu.org [mailto:avr-libc-dev-bounces+eweddington=cso.atmel@nongnu. org] On Behalf Of Dave N6NZ Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 5:39 PM Cc: avr-libc-dev@nongnu.org Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] 64

Re: [avr-libc-dev] 64-bit doubles

2008-12-20 Thread Dave N6NZ
Ron Kreymborg wrote: Isn't there some compiler infrastructure that would have to happen also? Yes, we need to have both the library support, as well as the compiler support. The compiler work might be easier than the library work, but this is just conjecture. Eric For the moment I am