Re: [linux-audio-dev] Denormal numbers

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Denormal numbers
From: Alfons Adriaensen (fons.adriaensen_AT_alcatel.be)
Date: Thu Jul 31 2003 - 11:45:01 EEST


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:26:49AM +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> Several people have asked me what denormal numbers are over the last few
> weeks, well heres a much better description than my rambling head
> scratching: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/denormal.ps
>
> Its an extract from David Goldberg's article, "What Every Computer
> Scientist Should Know about Floating-Point Arithmetic".

Do you know of a *very fast* (probably inline assembly) way to force
denormal FP numbers to zero ?

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FA


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