Re: [PATCH 3/4] math: signal underflow for fmaf results that are tiny before rounding

Matt Turner <[email protected]> Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:10:44 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
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On Tue, 4 Aug 2026, Joseph Myers wrote:

> As with the previous patch, is this general for after-rounding
> architectures, or specific to an Alpha hardware bug?

Specific to Alpha.  On x86_64 without this patch

  fmaf (-0x8p-152, 0x8.8p-4, -0x3.fffff8p-128) -> -0x1p-126

raises underflow already.  I answered this at more length on 2/4, which
has the worked example.

Please drop this one too.  It will come back conditional, along with 2/4.

Matt