Re: [linux-audio-dev] Denormal numbers

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Denormal numbers
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 20:16:22 EEST


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:35:42 +0300, Jussi Laako wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 21:42, Steve Harris wrote:
>
> > I should play with it somemore, its possibel that you can tell the 387 to
> > ignore the exceptions.
>
> See /usr/include/fpu_control.h

Thanks, and Hmmm....

If its possible to disable it (on a per process basis, we dont want to
turn it off for every process), maybe it should be a recommendation for
realtime LADSPA hosts?

Its hard to imageine that any realtime audio app would require denormal
support for anything.

- Steve


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