Bug#210598: libc6.1: Operations on subnormal floating-point numbers generate a floating point exception
On 2003-09-12 14:39:40 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> That's life on Alpha. I believe you can get different behavior by
> compiling with -mieee, does that work?
That works, but IEEE-754 isn't the only standard. The ISO C standard
has its own requirements. In my case, there was neither an erroneous
arithmetic operation, nor a range error; therefore I shouldn't have
got a FPE signal.
(Note: I compiled with -std=c99.)
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