On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Joe Buck wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:56:30PM +0200, Abramo Bagnara wrote: > > The problem come from the fact that for astonishing reasons 1.4e-45f is > > not seen as 1.4e-45. > > Why is this astonishing? The smallest positive single-precision IEEE > floating point number is roughly 1.175494e-38. Since user-specified > numbers are rounded to the closest representable value, 1.4e-45f is > a fancy way of typing zero.
The smallest subnormal value is approximately 1.40129846e-45F (__FLT_DENORM_MIN__). The obvious conclusion is that subnormal support is broken or disabled on Alpha by default. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
