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On 10/25/2013 11:42 AM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> I believe that a better implementation could use float*_muladd, and check the
> result for float_flag_invalid.  If set, compute the intermediate product so you
> can figure out the VXISI setting.  But we'd expect that to be an unlikely path.

Interesting thought.  I think I see a way to re-arrange the code.  Thanks, Richard.