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Added commentary on purpose of static rounding modes.
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@@ -164,7 +164,12 @@ \section{Floating-Point Control and Status Register}
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\begin{commentary}
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The C99 language standard effectively mandates the provision of a
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dynamic rounding mode register.
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dynamic rounding mode register. In typical implementations, writes to
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the dynamic rounding mode CSR state will serialize the pipeline.
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Static rounding modes are used to implement specialized arithmetic
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operations that often have to switch frequently between different
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rounding modes.
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\end{commentary}
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\newpage
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