On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 03:09:02PM -0700, David McClain wrote:
> ... remember too, in signal and image processing applications,  
> converting to raw machine integers and plowing ahead is often  
> counterproductive.
> 
> Rather we need saturating arithmetic to avoid abrupt transitions on  
> overflow conditions, or modulo addressing. Neither of these is native  
> to SSM, and have to be synthesized. DSP chips on the other hand almost  
> always offer these variations implicitly or explicitly.

Please confine messages about HLVM to one thread, and don't
start a new thread for every message you post.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat