The Floating-Point Underflow Detection routine enables or disables floating-point underflow detection for the calling routine activation. The previous setting is returned as a function value. This routine is available on OpenVMS Alpha and I64 systems in translated form and is applicable to translated VAX images only. Format LIB$FLT_UNDER new-setting
1 – Returns
OpenVMS usage:longword_unsigned type: longword (unsigned) access: write only mechanism: by value The old floating-point underflow enable setting (the previous contents of the SF$W_PSW[PSW$V_FU] in the caller's frame).
2 – Argument
new-setting OpenVMS usage:longword_unsigned type: longword (unsigned) access: read only mechanism: by reference New floating-point underflow enable setting. The new-setting argument is the address of an unsigned byte containing the new setting. Bit 0 set to 1 means enable; bit 0 set to 0 means disable.