VFP11™ Vector Floating-point Coprocessor Technical Reference Manual 5.8. Overflow exception

VFP11™ Vector Floating-point Coprocessor Technical Reference Manual

for ARM1136JF-S processor r1p5

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5.8. Overflow exception

When the OFE bit, FPSCR[10], is set to 1, the hardware detects overflow pessimistically based on the preliminary calculation of the final exponent value. If the OFE bit is not set to 1, the hardware detects overflow conclusively.

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