ieee denormal on ia64?

David Schultz das at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Mar 6 09:30:04 UTC 2011


On Fri, Feb 25, 2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Can somebody please confirm that denormal
> are not available on ia64, see below.
[...]
> The FreeBSD manpage for fpsetmask() at http://tinyurl.com/64oo7zh says:
> 
> >      #define FP_X_DNML	     0x02    /* denormal */

The FreeBSD manpage for fpsetmask() also says that it's
deprecated.  The standard way to do this is with the routines
described in fenv(3), which has included an FE_DENORMAL flag since
it was added in 2004.


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