15-213/18-243 Introduction to Computer Systems
Lecture 9: Floating Point

• Reading: Ch 3.9-3.10, 3.14, x86-64 supplement
• Slides: 09-data-fp
• Code: none
• Concepts:
  • Structures
  • Unions
  • Alignment
  • Floating point (x87 and SSE3)
• Previous lecture: Data Representation
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