On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:57:29AM +0100, gary mc closkey wrote:
> From: Kenn Humborg <kenn at bluetree.ie>
> >
> > Oops! Mistake... This is the correct one
> [snip corrected assembly code]
>> Like we all were chuckling to ourselves on how you could make such an
> obvious mistake :)
Ahhh, but you all missed the other deliberate mistake :-)
There's no mul2 instruction. It should be mull2.
And, of course, that code won't actually give you the
factorial of 30, as tried in fact_test :-(
When I go home later, I'll do it with the VAX's 128-bit
H-floats.
Later,
Kenn
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