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Re: how not to use denormalised numbers?

From: "N.M. Maclaren" <nmm1 at cam dot ac dot uk>
To: FX <fxcoudert at gmail dot com>
Cc: mexas at bris dot ac dot uk, sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu, fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: 10 Nov 2015 17:10:58 +0000
Subject: Re: how *not* to use denormalised numbers?
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On Nov 10 2015, FX wrote:

I agree.  I would hope that the default is to use the 'native' mode,
whatever that is, on the grounds that changing the mode is bad news
for interoperability with C and some libraries,


The default in gfortran is "do not change the FPU state".


And I believe that should not be changed.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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