[linux-audio-dev] Denormal numbers

Steve Harris S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Aug 4 13:31:01 UTC 2003


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 07:35:42 +0300, Jussi Laako wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 21:42, Steve Harris wrote:
> 
> > I should play with it somemore, its possibel that you can tell the 387 to
> > ignore the exceptions.
> 
> See /usr/include/fpu_control.h

Thanks, and Hmmm....

If its possible to disable it (on a per process basis, we dont want to
turn it off for every process), maybe it should be a recommendation for
realtime LADSPA hosts?

Its hard to imageine that any realtime audio app would require denormal
support for anything.

- Steve



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