Introduction
I've joined the 1788 list and should
introduce myself.
I work on the optimizer used in the
IBM XL compilers for C, C++ and Fortran and also our PL/I compiler. Some
of the areas I've dealt with include maintaining and developing a variety
of optimizations like common subexpression elimination, inlining, SIMD,
etc., being design and team lead for our Decimal Floating Point implementation,
designing and implementing our PL/I packed and zoned decimal, and being
team lead for dealing with customer problems.
I'm moderately knowledgeable about IEEE
754 floating point but not about Interval Arithmetic (especially the application
requirements) and have only read draft version 1 so far. If I blunder
say so.
- Ian McIntosh
Toronto IBM Lab 8200 Warden Avenue D2-445
905-413-3411