• DOI:10.1145/227699.227701
Corpus ID: 9820157

Handling floating-point exceptions in numeric programs

@article{Hauser1996HandlingFE,
  title={Handling floating-point exceptions in numeric programs},
  author={J. Hauser},
  journal={ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.},
  year={1996},
  volume={18},
  pages={139-174}
}

J. Hauser

Published 1996

Computer Science

ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst.

There are a number of schemes for handling arithmetic exceptions that can be used to improve the speed (or alternatively the reliability) of numeric code. Overflow and underflow are the most troublesome exceptions, and depending on the context in which the exception can occur, they may be addressed either: (1) through a “brute force” reevaluation with extended range, (2) by reevaluating using a technique known as scaling, (3) by substituting an infinity or zero, or (4) in the case of underflow… CONTINUE READING

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