Re: Infinity (to the nearest integer)

Raoul Duke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.e.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Karp, Alan H <[email protected]> wrote:
> We proposed that Itanium have an extra bit on each integer register, but that idea got shot down because of the performance impact on register spill.

reminds me, i need to go re-read how the ibm AS/400 etc. does it,
since they (iiuc) had good success with tag bits.
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