> "Notice that if the value to be stored by a single-precision store
> floating-point instruction is larger in magnitude than [MAX_FLOAT],
> the result stored in WORD is then a well-defined value, but is not
> numerically equal to the value in the source register."
>
> In other words, 'stfs' doesn't correctly handle values greater than
> MAX_FLOAT, so the 'frsp' is required to ensure that 'stfs' will always
> do the right thing.
I would read that differently. Values greater than MAX_FLOAT can simply
not be represented as a single precision float, so both 'frsp' and 'stfs'
must replace the true value with +infinity.
Holger
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