1. A floating point flag forcing circuit for selectively clearing at least a portion of encoded status flag information within a floating point operand, comprising: a first circuit that determines a predetermined format associated with the floating point operand from the encoded status flag information within the floating point operand; and a second circuit that assembles a resulting operand in which at least a portion of the encoded status flag information of the resulting operand is cleared based upon the predetermined format and an assembly signal generated by the first circuit.