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Added commentary on purpose of static rounding modes.
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kasanovic committed May 19, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -164,7 +164,12 @@ \section{Floating-Point Control and Status Register}

\begin{commentary}
The C99 language standard effectively mandates the provision of a
dynamic rounding mode register.
dynamic rounding mode register. In typical implementations, writes to
the dynamic rounding mode CSR state will serialize the pipeline.

Static rounding modes are used to implement specialized arithmetic
operations that often have to switch frequently between different
rounding modes.
\end{commentary}
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