IEEE issues with GCC on x86-linux

[Jochen Küpper <jochen at fhi-berlin dot mpg dot de>]

I am trying to run the GSL test-suite with GSL_IEEE_MODE set.

The system is GNU/Linux 2.6.4-52-smp, gcc-3.3.3, gsl-1.5.90
(cvs-HEAD). Compile-flags used are
,----[CFLAGS]
| -g -mcpu=i686 -pipe -O2 -Wall -mfpmath=sse -mieee-fp
`----

When I run the test-suite with GSL_IEEE_MODE being undefined all tests
pass. However, when I try to set GSL_IEEE_MODE it has to include
`mask-all', otherwise some tests fail. 

Specifically sys/test.c fails at line 332 when using the following
mode:
,----[GSL_IEEE_MODE]
| double-precision,round-to-nearest,mask-underflow,mask-denormalized
`----

,----[gdb output]
| Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception.
| 0x4003c306 in __ieee754_exp () from /lib/tls/libm.so.6
| (gdb) bt
| #0  0x4003c306 in __ieee754_exp () from /lib/tls/libm.so.6
| #1  0x4003fda0 in exp () from /lib/tls/libm.so.6
| #2  0x08049bab in main () at ../../sys/test.c:332
`----

,----[test.c:332]
|     inf = exp (1.0e10);
`----

Is this expected? Any hints are appreciated.

Greetings,
Jochen
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