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To: Martin Atkinson-Barr who wrote (20601)	5/7/1997 4:29:00 PM
From: d[-_-]b	of 186894

Martin, Re: But the program does not have to test any other bits than the IE and if this bit is not set (when it should be) then the processor is reporting a valid value has been returned and subsequent operations will use this value... I can't remember the last time I converted potentially very large floats to int, without first checking bounds. Let alone even wrote something that purposely would be out of bounds in the first place. Perhaps you could give me an example of why I would be taking really big floats and converting to int, just to have exceptions triggered to tell me I just did a bad thing. My experience has been I would have just used some simulated/artificial form of really big ints and not regular register ones. Not trying to minimize the bug, as it's real and shouldn't be there but a real live example of why a programmer would be doing something so bizarre in the first place would be nice.

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