Message-ID: <4A6D8466.6000603@mx.uni-saarland.de>
Date: 2009-07-27T10:41:42Z
From: Martin Becker
Subject: how to change FPU control word?
Dear developers,
is there (already) a platform-independent way for (temporarily!)
changing the fpu control word?
More precisely: I am looking for functions (accessible from C code in R
packages) which read and write the fpu control word on x86 cpus (and
cause no harm otherwise), because I need to (temporarily) turn off
internal 80-bit precision for some algorithms relying on 64-bit IEEE
arithmetics. Currently, I am using inline assembler (which works for x86
cpus on Linux and Windows (MinGW)), but I am not sure what happens for
other cpus/OSs (and I am not able to check this). I hope, there is
already a better solution.
Any hints appreciated!
Thanks,
Martin
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Dr. Martin Becker
Statistics and Econometrics
Saarland University
Campus C3 1, Room 206
66123 Saarbruecken
Germany