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Systems Aspects, from D. Goldberg, p. 193

The design of computer systems requires in-depth knowledge about FP. Modern processors have special FP instructions, compilers must generate such FP instructions, and the operating system must handle the exception conditions generated by these FP instructions.



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Adrian Sandu 2001-08-26