Refine documentation of libm exceptions goals [committed]

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Feb 18 17:25:00 GMT 2015


On Wed, 18 Feb 2015, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:

> this is an interesting issue because iso c annex f forbids the
> omission of underflow right now, which is hard to achive unless
> libm checks <= DBL_MIN instead of the sensible < DBL_MIN and
> raises spurious underflow for a lot of exact (or non-tiny) DBL_MIN
> results (which is allowed by the standard)

I don't believe it forbids computing an imprecise result that happens to 
be (exactly) DBL_MIN or more, and so doesn't underflow.

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Joseph S. Myers
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