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Date:      Sun, 7 Jun 2015 18:50:26 +0000 (GMT)
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To:        bapt@FreeBSD.org, jenkins-admin@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   FreeBSD_HEAD_arm64 - Build #281 - Fixed
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FreeBSD_HEAD_arm64 - Build #281 - Fixed:

Check console output at https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD_arm64/281/ to view the results.
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From: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
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Subject: Re: Denormalised numbers on arm
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On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 10:43:14 +1000
Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote:

> I've been tracking down the cause of some test failures on my RPi
> (running armv6hf head r283107) and found that denormalised numbers are
> flushed to zero.  This appears deliberate (r263913 initialised the
> fpscr so denormalised numbers are flushed to zero) but isn't what is
> expected from IEEE FP arithmetic.  The commit doesn't include any
> explanation for setting this (mis)behaviour.
>=20
> Can someone explain why Arm defaults to flush-to-zero?

Not all VFP units support subnormal inputs. Because of this we would
need to add code to the kernel to support these. As we don't have this
code I disabled them.

Andrew

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