Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question

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On Monday, March 5, 2012 3:40:40 AM UTC, daku...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank you very much for clarifying the
> sequence of steps ... the part that was 
> confusing me was when would the 2's 
> complement operation occur?

I hope that's okay now.  Even in the microcode 
I described, I knew a 2's complement operation 
would be happening deeper down, but I was just 
specifying a primitive subtraction operation, 
after enough inspection and adjustment of its 
operands to ensure that the result would still 
be positive!
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IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Daku <dakupoto@gmail.com> - 2012-03-04 05:12 -0800
  Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Mark Thorson <nospam@sonic.net> - 2012-03-04 10:37 -0800
    Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-04 13:21 -0700
      Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-04 13:49 -0700
    Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2012-03-04 13:08 -0800
      Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2012-03-04 14:43 -0700
      Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Mark Thorson <nospam@sonic.net> - 2012-03-04 16:35 -0800
        Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2012-03-05 01:39 +0000
          Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Mark Thorson <nospam@sonic.net> - 2012-03-04 18:53 -0800
            Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2012-03-05 04:04 +0000
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                Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org> - 2012-03-08 16:57 +0100
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        Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-03-04 22:32 -0700
  Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> - 2012-03-04 11:46 -0800
  Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question bert <bert.hutchings@btinternet.com> - 2012-03-04 12:05 -0800
    Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question dakupoto@gmail.com - 2012-03-04 19:40 -0800
      Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-03-04 22:33 -0700
      Re: IEEE-754-2008 2's complement question bert <bert.hutchings@btinternet.com> - 2012-03-05 02:16 -0800
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