[Cfp-interest] overflow to max normal

David Hough CFP pcfp at oakapple.net
Fri Jun 6 08:16:02 PDT 2014


I wonder if we need an overflow alternate exception handling to overflow
to max normal rather than infinity.     I once had to deal with a customer
program that worked OK with max normal but not infinity.    It came from
a VAX.     I fixed it by changing the rounding direction to toward zero,
which fortunately didn't seem to adversely affect the rest of the program.

I didn't think to include that when we were drafting 754-2008 chapter 8.


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