Re: g77 problems

[David Alan Gilbert <dg treblig org>]

Wes Bauske wrote:

> Alpha's are VERY strict with respect to arguments of FP operations.
> You cannot use un-normalized numbers! One normally gets those
> by indexing in an array incorrectly or used an un-initialized
> stack variable. If you run your code under gdb, and look at the
> arguments to the FP operation, you most likely will find a
> non-FP number. Now, if you REALLY intended to do this, you can
> use the flag '-mieee', I believe, to have SW trap and handle these
> sorts of problems. No guarantees that it will work but others
> have reported success with it.

What happens with numbers which are so small/large that they can not
be normalised (sorry I can't remember the term); as far as I understood
they were valid numbers, but perhaps I'm confused.

Dave
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