calculating a number of used memory locations in said stack cache; and comparing said number of used memory locations with an overflow threshold. 4. The method of claim 3 further comprising: storing an old optop value when said optop pointer is changed; spilling one or more data words ...
processor, by processing overflow and/or underflow as hardware in the RISC processor having a register window structure.;CONSTITUTION: A register window (20) includes local registers and incoming registers, and internal only memories (23,24) store content of the local and incoming register in word...
important to detect “tiny” results since they can lead to overflow if they operate as divisors in subsequent calculations. A result is deemed “inexact”, under the same standard, when it differs from the result that would have been computed if both the exponent range and precision were ...