Sixty-four? “how did sixty-four get into it?” I hear you cry!

Zero plus zero equals two. Not in some toy project. In Berkeley SoftFloat the IEEE 754 math library reference implementation. It s inside QEMU and most x86 emulators, and it s the oracle that hardware teams verify chip designs against. If you ve ever emulated a CPU or validated a chip design in the last decade, Berkeley Continue reading Sixty-four? how did sixty-four get into it? I hear you cry!…