On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Martynas Venckus <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think we should. Arch specific notes in man pages are not without >> precedent. If something can happen, the man pages on my system should >> tell me about it. >> >> ifconfig tells me about all sorts of cool things my computer can't do. :) > > The manual page documents standard IEEE 754 features, supported by > our implementation. > > Alpha's FP_X_IOV should not be used; our architecture doesn't even > maintain it properly since we call softfloat routines for conversions. > > We don't document it to discourage ever use it; we have plenty of > precedents for those.
OK, that's reasonable. This is a little outside my territory, but the i386 denormalization exception does sound like something that would be of interest to somebody who cares about floating point.
