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   Message 129,663 of 131,241   
   Michael S to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: Saving and restoring FP state   
   13 Sep 25 23:07:09   
   
   From: already5chosen@yahoo.com   
      
   On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:55:58 -0000 (UTC)   
   Thomas Koenig  wrote:   
      
   > Similarly, rounding modes are saved and restored for procedures.   
      
   I am not sure that I understand.   
   1. Is Fortran's equivalent of C's fesetround() is considered a   
   languge primitive rather than procedure?   
   2. Does above said mean that caller has no way of modifying rounding   
   mode used by callee? If true, it defeats one of original reasons for   
   which Kahan invented rounding modes in the first place.   
      
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