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Exception Flag handling for Underflow #11

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stmach opened this issue May 23, 2019 · 0 comments
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Exception Flag handling for Underflow #11

stmach opened this issue May 23, 2019 · 0 comments
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stmach commented May 23, 2019

As per IEEE754-2008, Section 7.5, Exact subnormal results should not raise the underflow exception flag.

Basically all operations that can signal UF are affected.
@stmach stmach added the bug-flags Issues with exception flags label May 23, 2019
@stmach stmach closed this as completed in 98c09d8 Jun 2, 2019
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🐛 Fix underflow flag for exact results (#11)
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Exact denormal result no longer raise the UF exception, as specified in
IEEE754-2008, Section 7.5.

Fixes #11.
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