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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: 386 Clones [really: IEEE floating point & various approaches; long]
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Date: 2 Nov 90 01:45:13 GMT
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In article <42618@mips.mips.COM> mash@mips.COM (John Mashey) writes:
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>Now, how about input from people who actually develop FP programs:
>a) Do you use traps for SIGFPE, or not?

No. In my scientific codes, the correct answer for an underflow is zero, 
and I test for zero before I divide, if this could ever happen
in normal use. In very rare cases I have seen NaNs and Infs. These
imply to me that there is a bug in my code. So I debug it.

Doug McDonald