Re: Floating point question

[Greg Lindahl <lindahl cs virginia edu>]

> As I recall, your problem was underflows in exp() due to large negative
> arguments.  libffm returns zero by default, without -mieee.

To expand on this answer a bit, with the latest libffm, your code
should only need -mieee on Linux if it needs the equivalent on Digital
Unix. DU Fortran and g77 use the same techniques to process
underflows, but g77 is slower on most codes in the first place.

-- g