On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Fred J. Tydeman wrote:
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>It appears that neither standard can give those a useful value if the treatment
>of subnormals can be changed at runtime (as can be done on ARM chips).
>They also do not cover the two case where:
> operands are flushed to zero, but results are not flushed.
> results are flushed, but operands are not flushed.

I forgot about the case where most operations flush subnormals to zero,
but there are some operations that do NOT flush.

>C implementations should define the macros as: -1 indeterminable.
>C++ implementations should define as: denorm_indeterminate
>While that is the correct value, it is not useful.

>

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