Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:04:09 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
cc:	djgpp workers list <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Bug when printing long doubles
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On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Hmmm... seems like I'll have to revisit my FPU literature again. I thought
> the FPU at least had a mode where it does not generate any exception, nor
> return NaN, when it's operating on unnormals...

There *is* a mode where all exceptions are masked (that's how DJGPP v2.02 
sets the FPU up), but unnormals always generate a NaN when they are used 
as one of the operands, at least AFAIK.  *Denormals* indeed are silently 
converted to zero, but not unnormals.

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