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Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library for AIX Version 3 Release 3: Guide and Reference


|Migrating between IBM e(logo)server pSeries and RS/6000 Processors

This section describes all the aspects of migrating your ESSL application programs (back and forth) between the PowerPC, POWER, POWER2, POWER3, POWER3-II, and |POWER4 processors.

Auxiliary Storage

The minimum amount of auxiliary storage returned by ESSL error handling may vary among the |IBM e(logo)server pSeries and RS/6000 processors for the following subroutines: all the Fourier transform subroutines, SCONF, SCORF, and SACORF. Therefore, to guarantee that your application programs always migrate from any platform to any other platform, you should use the processor independent formulas to determine the amount of auxiliary storage to use.

Bitwise-Identical Results

Because of hardware and ESSL design differences, the results you obtain when migrating from one ESSL Library to another may not be bitwise identical. The results, however, are mathematically equivalent.


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