Inside Macintosh:

PowerPC Numerics

Inside Macintosh: PowerPC Numerics describes the numerics environment for Macintosh with PowerPC computers. PowerPC Numerics is an environment in which floating-point operations are performed quickly and as accurately as possible. This book contains information you need to know to write floating-point applications for Macintosh with PowerPC computers. By reading this book, you'll learn about

• IEEE Standard 754
• the FPCE technical report
• the differences between PowerPC Numerics and the Standard Apple Numerics Environment
• the functions and macros provided in the PowerPC Numerics library
• the PowerPC floating-point architecture
• the structure of PowerPC floating-point data formats
• the floating-point exceptions and how to use them when programming
• porting floating-point applications to Macintosh with PowerPC computers

To use this book, you need to be familiar with the PowerPC run-time architecture as described in the book Inside Macintosh: PowerPC System Software. It also helps if you know how to write programs in the C programming language.

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Book Contents

Figures, Tables, and Listings

Preface - About This Book

Part 1 - The PowerPC Numerics Environment

Chapter 1 - IEEE Standard Arithmetic

Chapter 2 - Floating-Point Data Formats

Chapter 3 - Expression Evaluation

Chapter 4 - Environmental Controls

Chapter 5 - Conversions

Chapter 6 - Numeric Operations and Functions

Part 2 - The PowerPC Numerics C Implementation

Chapter 7 - Numeric Data Types in C

Chapter 8 - Environmental Control Functions

Chapter 9 - Conversion Functions

Chapter 10 - Transcendental Functions

Part 3 - Numerics in PowerPC Assembly Language

Chapter 11 - Introduction to Assembly-Language Numerics

Chapter 12 - Assembly-Language Environmental Controls

Chapter 13 - Assembly-Language Numeric Conversions

Chapter 14 - Assembly-Language Numeric Operations

Appendixes

Appendix A - SANE Versus PowerPC Numerics

Appendix B - Porting Programs to PowerPC Numerics

Appendix C - MathLib Header Files

Appendix D - FPCE Recommendations for Compilers

Appendix E - MathLib Reference

Appendix F - PowerPC Assembly-Language Numerics Reference

Glossary

Bibliography