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dupedtoday at 1:16 PM2 repliesview on HN

It's to satisfy IEEE 754 and it's been this way for decades.


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pohltoday at 1:18 PM

Does that mean that the ARM processors in the writeup are not satisfying IEEE 754?

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david-gputoday at 1:54 PM

I don't know who is down voting you. AFAIK IEEE 754:2008 does require support for subnormals. You can optionally have modes that flush them to zero, but you must support subnormals.

I haven't done any work on this stuff since 2019, so my memory may be hazy.