[PATCH 3/4] math: signal underflow for fmaf results that are tiny before rounding
Matt Turner
mattst88@gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 02:10:44 GMT 2026
On Tue, 4 Aug 2026, Joseph Myers wrote:
> As with the previous patch, is this general for after-rounding
> architectures, or specific to an Alpha hardware bug?
Specific to Alpha. On x86_64 without this patch
fmaf (-0x8p-152, 0x8.8p-4, -0x3.fffff8p-128) -> -0x1p-126
raises underflow already. I answered this at more length on 2/4, which
has the worked example.
Please drop this one too. It will come back conditional, along with 2/4.
Matt
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