[Cfp-interest 2079] Re: Underflow

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:40:56 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
>This may be OK with IEEE 754 types, but not with the general FP model
>of ISO C, where you may have numbers less than the minimum normalized
>number in magnitude, but are not subnormals, nor zero

Care to give an example in either real hardware or the C FP model?



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