This section introduces the floating-point support in the Intel® Fortran Compiler and provides information about using floating-point operations in your applications. The section also briefly describes the IEEE* Floating-Point Standard (IEEE 754).
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Understand the programming objectives of floating-point applications |
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Use the -fp-model (Linux* and Mac OS* X) or /fp (Windows*) option |
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Set the flush-to-zero (FTZ) or denormals-are-zero (DAZ) flags |
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Tuning the performance of floating-point applications |
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Learn about the IEEE Floating-Point Standard |