Subject: Re: handling very small doubles
To: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au>
From: Matthias Pfaller <leo@dachau.marco.de>
List: port-pc532
Date: 09/16/1998 09:17:11
Ian Dall wrote:
> As for doubles less than DBL_MIN, there is certainly support for denormal=
ized
> numbers in the floating point package I wrote, but I don't know if it is
> turned on by default.

Your package is turned on. Would you turn it off (there is a sysctl for it),
not even gcc or libm would build...

> The default might be truncate to zero. I believe
> the denomalized numbers work properly, but they haven't been tested all t=
hat
> thoroughly.

I run paranoia on my pc532 a couple of month ago and it found no problems.
You really did a very good job with the floating point package :-)

Matthias
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