Problem with zeros.

[Steve Kargl]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:05:38PM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> >At the time when we persuaded the Intel compiler team to institute the 
> >present behavior of ifort, the primary models for compatibility were g77 
> >on linux, and CVF on Windows.  Both of those compilers silently convert 
> >subnormal inputs to the nearest available sub-normal (0. if 
> >appropriate).  Throwing an exception which terminates the program, in 
> >the absence of iostat handling, breaks important applications.  So it 
> >was accepted that the historical behavior of g77 and CVF should be 
> >continued.
> >
> Thanks for the information.  I am looking into why we do not get the 
> sub-normals now.
> 

Actually, I do get the subnormals on FreeBSD.  Perhaps, this
is a glibc bug.

-- 
Steve