From:	Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Code to Fix sinh() in libm.a
Date:	Wed, 20 May 1998 13:25:18 -0500
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 
> If you ask whether GCC emits instructions which change the x87 status
> word, then I don't think it does, at least in simple programs that I
> tried.

Did you mean changes to the x87 control word? The x87 status word is, of
course, set as a result of most floating-point instructions; gcc changes
the control word at various times also, but AFAIK gcc always saves and
restores the original state. For instance, if one writes

   double x;
   int ix;
   ...
   ix = (int) x;

then gcc changes the control word from "round-to-nearest" to "round
towards zero", saves the number in ix, then changes the control word
back to its original state. Unfortunately, I have seen no documentation
that guarantees what that original state is.

-Eric Rudd
rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com

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