OPERATIONS FOR EFFICIENT FLOATING POINT COMPUTATIONS

摘要

Systems and methods for efficiently handling problematic corner cases in floating point operations without raising flags or exceptions. One or more floating point numbers that will generate a problematic corner case in floating point computations, such as division or square root computation, are detected. Fix-up operations are applied to modify the computation such that the problematic corner case is avoided. The modified computation then is performed, while suppressing error flags are suppressed during intermediate stages.