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

[Brooks Moses]

Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I thought there was a better word for it when I was looking at it, 
but "denormalized" didn't seem quite right.

> 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)".

It's a little trickier than that, since it's referring to an option 
value of "denormal".  And it's already in parentheses, so Andrew's 
suggestion is awkward.  I'll think on it and see if I come up with a 
better idea.

One option (since this _is_ in the IEEE floating-point exceptions 
trapping code and thus probably ought to match IEEE usage) would be to 
change the option flag to "subnormal" instead of "denormal", and then we 
could change the documentation.  :)

- Brooks