B.1 Instruction Formats
Floating-Point Operations
The floating-point unit operation set includes:
- floating-point add
- floating-point subtract
- floating-point multiply
- floating-point divide
- floating-point square root
- convert between fixed-point and floating-point formats
- convert between floating-point formats
- floating-point compare
These operations satisfy the requirements of IEEE Standard 754 requirements for accuracy. Specifically, these operations obtain a result which is identical to an infinite-precision result rounded to the specified format, using the current rounding mode.
Instructions must specify the format of their operands. Except for conversion functions, mixed-format operations are not provided.
Copyright 1996, MIPS Technologies, Inc. -- 21 MAR 96
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