And my own misspeaking was a slight mis-description of the relevance of
signed zero in the ticket, which I corrected to Zoffix in IRC.

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:11 AM, Zefram <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In which aspect did I misspeak?
>
>
> iirc underflow doesn't work quite the way either you or Darren said; it's
> not just the signed zero, it's also a status flag indicating that that
> signed zero reflects an underflow condition. What it is not is a separate
> value as Darren seemed to think. But it's also not merely the signed zero,
> although in some cases that may be sufficient.
>
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