[parisc-linux] Re: HPPA FPU Specification? (FE_INEXACT raised by accident)

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:16:03PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > I've noticed that I cannot generate an underflow or overflow exception
> > without also forcing an inexact exception on my PA 2.0 system. Are you
> > familiar with this behaviour at all? I'm trying to straighten our fenv
> > setup, and this is really the last crinkle.
> 
> I suggest looking at page 10-7.  It describes the PA 2.0 behavior
> for this situation.  I'm not an IEEE so I don't know offhand what it
> mandates.

Multiple exceptions per instruction is not the intended behaviour :)
I need two numbers, that when added only overflow, not overflow and
inexact. The same to be said for underflow. Perhaps I just need to 
dig more.

c.