Architecture floating-point underflow information wanted
Andreas Schwab
schwab@linux-m68k.org
Tue Sep 25 18:11:00 GMT 2012
"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> #include <fenv.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> volatile float a = 0x1.fffp-126;
> volatile float b = 0x1.0008p-1;
> volatile float c;
>
> int
> main (void)
> {
> feclearexcept (FE_ALL_EXCEPT);
> c = a * b;
> if (fetestexcept (FE_UNDERFLOW))
Does this really give the correct result for FLT_EVAL_METHOD != 0? I
think for those archs you have to set the rounding mode to float to be
accurate.
Andreas.
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