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NASM Forum => Summer of Code Ideas => Topic started by: H. Peter Anvin on March 13, 2009, 10:13:04 PM

Title: Better floating-point support
Post by: H. Peter Anvin on March 13, 2009, 10:13:04 PM

Right now, NASM has approximately ±1 LSB accuracy on its floating-point conversion; it would be a lot better if it would always round values correctly.

Furthermore, it would be nice to support arithmetic on floating-point numbers.

This task would require considerable familiarity with the subtleties of IEEE floating-point arithmetic and conversions, since the NASM developers are primarily systems people and not numeric experts.

Title: Re: Better floating-point support
Post by: goslinga on September 30, 2012, 06:06:48 AM

I am interested in this project. I have considerable experience with the FPU.