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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2017
Applicant:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ronen Zohar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shane Story, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30 (2018.01); G06F 17/10 (2006.01); G06F 7/499 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/30014 (2013.01); G06F 9/30025 (2013.01); G06F 9/30036 (2013.01); G06F 9/30167 (2013.01); G06F 9/30181 (2013.01); G06F 9/30185 (2013.01); G06F 17/10 (2013.01); G06F 7/49947 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a rounding instruction and an immediate value in a processor, determining if a rounding mode override indicator of the immediate value is active, and if so executing a rounding operation on a source operand in a floating point unit of the processor responsive to the rounding instruction and according to a rounding mode set forth in the immediate operand. Other embodiments are described and claimed.