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Date:      Sun, 6 Mar 2011 04:09:39 -0500
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ieee denormal on ia64?
Message-ID:  <20110306090939.GA94292@zim.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <20110225093345.GA2123@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <20110225093345.GA2123@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Fri, Feb 25, 2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> Can somebody please confirm that denormal
> are not available on ia64, see below.
[...]
> The FreeBSD manpage for fpsetmask() at http://tinyurl.com/64oo7zh says:
> 
> >      #define FP_X_DNML	     0x02    /* denormal */

The FreeBSD manpage for fpsetmask() also says that it's
deprecated.  The standard way to do this is with the routines
described in fenv(3), which has included an FE_DENORMAL flag since
it was added in 2004.



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