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authorJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2016-08-07 19:20:37 -0400
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2016-08-10 09:09:29 -0400
commitb6d9b423fab1963346eb79e83b356114396b1f2e (patch)
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parent5fddd31d7b2dc088b4b71080d71434186b7722e0 (diff)
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hexfp: IEEE 754 subnormals printf %a
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diff --git a/perl.h b/perl.h
index 0c99831c6a..c0f487d7bf 100644
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+++ b/perl.h
@@ -6842,7 +6842,9 @@ extern void moncontrol(int);
#ifdef DOUBLE_IS_IEEE_FORMAT
/* All the basic IEEE formats have the implicit bit,
- * except for the 80-bit extended formats, which will undef this. */
+ * except for the x86 80-bit extended formats, which will undef this.
+ * Also note that the IEEE 754 subnormals (formerly known as denormals)
+ * do not have the implicit bit of one. */
# define NV_IMPLICIT_BIT
#endif