John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > Yes. I want to call fpsetmask(0) in fp_init(). (The numerous > manpages that Google returns for fpsetmask() seem to indicate > that this is the syntax to turn off all exceptions, and they all > indicate that <ieeefp.h> is the right header to include.) > > I'm not sure that it might not be a better idea to catch SIGFPE and > issue a warning message, and then continue.
Why? Furthermore, I doubt it's possible portably. I suspect that some CPUs will in fact retry the instruction and fault again in a loop. -- "Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual machine specification. One should not assume that every virtual machine implementation contains a giant squid." --"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java" _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
