[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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