[LAD] Floating point Denormals: C++ and Waf

[David Robillard]

On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 11:28 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:46 AM, David Robillard <d at drobilla.net>
> wrote:
>         
>         Is there a reason Jack can't do this for everything?  I am not
>         really
>         keen on putting a bunch of mysterious assembler crap in a host
>         meant to
>         be a relatively clean example, and it's even worse to make
>         plugins have
>         to do this...
> 
> JACK doesn't get a chance to handle the output of a plugin until the
> host hands it over to JACK and the process cycle ends. Just have a
> reverb plugin outputting denormals and then have the host apply a gain
> value and boom .. JACK can't play a role in that signal flow. 

I mean set the flush-to-zero flag (and/or any other processor state
stuff required).

I know Ardour 'injects' non-zero data to fix denormals, but last I
tinkered with this, setting that flag made the problems go away.  This
was many processor generations ago, though.

-dr


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