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Technology Stocks : IS INTC A GROWTH STOCK?

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To: Yaacov who wrote (113)	5/12/1997 11:49:00 PM
From: jim kelley	of 243

Yaacov, I have not seen the patch published yet. I would think that the software companies are in the best position to check their own applications. They can determine where the floating point to integer conversions are being used by performing a global search on either the assembly source code or the binary code. If they are using binary code they will need to know which parts of the code are program and which are data. Some companies (MSFT) will modify their compiler so that they produce correct code sequence to correct for an error like this. This is likely to be done and will eliminate the possibility of this error in new application code. This has been done many time before by other companies to correct for processor bugs.( I will refrain from naming them.) The patch may vary from testing for the conditions that give rise to the error and setting an equivalent " software flag" to replacing the instuction in question with a equivalent software function. In most cases the software manufacturer will install the patch in the next release. In other cases, the end user can download the patch from the internet the way that MSFT does it for NT and Windows 95. INTC can publish several different versions of the patches from as guidance for the user to select from for use in their own applications software. This is business as usual for programmers. They have been doing this since the beginning of the computer industry. Regards Jim K.

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