[LCP]Detecting overflow of floating point calculations

[Greg Black]

Chuck Martin wrote:

| What's the best way to detect overflow during floating point calculations?

Here are a couple of useful references with plenty of meat:

  <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ieee&sektion=3>
  <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=math&sektion=3>