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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2016
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ilan Pardo, Ramat-Hasharon, IL;
Oren Ben-Kiki, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A processor includes circuitry to decode at least one instruction and an execution unit. The decoded instruction may compute a floating point result. The execution unit includes circuitry to execute the instruction to determine the floating point result, compute the amount of precision lost in a mantissa of the floating point result, compare the amount of precision lost to a numeric accumulation error precision threshold, determine whether a numeric accumulation error occurred based on the comparison, and write a value to a flag. The amount of precision lost corresponds to a plurality of bits lost in the mantissa of the floating point result. The value to be written to the flag may be based on the determination that the numeric accumulation error occurred. The flag may be for notification that the numeric accumulation error occurred.