[Cfp-interest 2771] Re: CFP review of NB comments on CD2 - 20230602

[Hans Boehm]

On Mon, Jun 5, 2023 at 8:38 PM Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 09:03:40 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
> >
> >>> I am thinking about the values of variables in shared memory between
> the threads. I assume that if exceptions are delayed, then the value from
> those exceptions are also delayed (so storage is not updated, so other
> threads get the wrong value).
> >
> >The state of the exception flags is local to the thread, not in shared
> memory.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >Am I missing something?
>
> Yes.
>  There are two items that result from an FP exception in default mode
>   Raising an exception flag (local to a thread)
>   Returning a FP value (global memory)
>
> I am concerned with the FP value in memory.
>
>  Could you give a specific example illustrating your concern? I'm
currently confused.

Hans
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