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Date:      Wed, 30 Dec 1998 16:03:28 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, dfr@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha vm_machdep.c machdep.c fp_emulate.c trap.c src/sys/alpha/include vmparam.h src/sys/kern init_main.c kern_exec.c src/sys/sys imgact.h 
Message-ID:  <87569.915030208@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:02:04 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812301501080.1813-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812301501080.1813-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>, Dou
g Rabson writes:
>On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
>
>> dfr>   * Disable all floating point exceptions by default.
>> 
>> My understanding is that we still get SIGFPE without
>> "-mtrap-precision=i -mfp-trap-mode=su" option of cc and default
>> cc doesn't have this option. Am I right?
>
>That is true (I think).  I'm not quite sure what happens if exceptions are
>disabled but an operation generates an underflow.

Don't you just get denormalized numbers, NaNs and similar monsters ?

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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