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Floating point operations

Exceptions, sticky bits, and trap bits

Floating point operations can lead to any of the following types of floating point exceptions:


NOTE: The above examples for the exception types do not constitute an exhaustive list of the conditions when an exception can occur.

The floating point implementation on the Intel(TM) processors includes another exception type called ``Denormalization exception''. This exception occurs when the result of an expression is a denormalized number.



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