Having been badly burned by rubbish Intel math hardware back in the day*, I was fascinated to more latterly come across this set of related resources:
https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/170201.html https://github.com/libcg/bfp. On the subject of plugins setting FPU flags and modes. All I can say is yak. A terrible idea as, IIRC, even changing modes was slow. And a guarantee of absolutely zero. FPU modality (and denormal avoidance/mitigation) is precisely the kind of thing that should be specified by the host to downstream processors, just like bit depth, sample rate and buffer sizes. * Pentium 4 anyone? Cry me a river.
