[patch, fortran, committed] Re: Typo in gfortran man page

Andrew Pinski pinskia@gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 06:14:00 GMT 2006


On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:15 -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> The correct word is "subnormal" instead of "denormal".
> See the working draft of IEEE 754.

subnormal is also used in the C99 standard.

Though most people I know use denormal and I think most ISA books use
denormal also.

Maybe it is better say "subnormal (denormal)".

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski



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