On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:24 PM, David Miller wrote:

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> From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:38:44 -0500 (CDT)
>
>> Now that I'm digging into this a bit I'm thinking my issue has to  
>> do with
>> the fix you put in place from back in Aug 2007 (commit
>> 405849610fd96b4f34cd1875c4c033228fea6c0f):
>>
>> [MATH-EMU]: Fix underflow exception reporting.
>>
>>    2) we ended up rounding back up to normal (this is the case where
>>       we set the exponent to 1 and set the fraction to zero), this
>>       should set inexact too
>> ...
>>
>>    Another example, "0x0.0000000000001p-1022 / 16.0", should signal  
>> both
>>    inexact and underflow.  The cpu implementations and ieee1754
>>    literature is very clear about this.  This is case #2 above.
>>
>> I'm not clear from your commit comment on what actual number
>> 0x0.0....01p-1022 is?
>
> I haven't been able to look closely at this yet but I think I
> happened to stumble over the test case that lead me to that
> changeset you are referencing here.

Have you had a chance to look at this?

- k
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