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Date:      Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:43:02 +0200
From:      Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
To:        Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Floating Point Exceptions, signal handlers & subsequent ops
Message-ID:  <19980826144302.C20511@cons.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980825180559.A9890@cons.org>; from Martin Cracauer on Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 06:05:59PM %2B0200
References:  <199808250753.PAA29567@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> <19980825180559.A9890@cons.org>

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In <19980825180559.A9890@cons.org>, Martin Cracauer wrote: 
> In <199808250753.PAA29567@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: 
> > 
> > I've noticed in one of my applications that the first FP operation after 
> > return from a caught SIGFPE is invalid. I have a signal handler installed that 
> > just prints out some basic info (like "SIGFPE caught"). The first FP op after 
> > this (in my case, converting a long to a double) just gives garbage. Repeat 
> > the same statement and it gives a sensible result. Has anyone else seen this 
> > before I file a PR with code to reproduce the problem?
> 
> I just did a short test and for me the next FP operation after a
> caught SIGFPE (division by zero) is still sane (without
> setjump/jumpjump).

I'm afraid I was talking nonsense here :-( This test program shows the
problem. Now the question, why did my other test work well...?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <signal.h>

void
handler(int s)
{
  write(1, "sig\n", 4);
}

int
main(void)
{
  double f0;
  double f2;
  double f4;
  double f8;
  double res;

  /* Prevent optimization */
  f0 = atof("0.0");
  f2 = atof("2.0");
  f4 = atof("4.0");
  f8 = atof("8.0");

  signal (SIGFPE, handler);

  res = f2 / f0;

  printf("After division by zero: %g\n", res);

  res = f4 + f8;

  if (res != 12.0) {
    printf("Next operation didn't work: %g\n", res);
  }
  else {
    printf("Next operation worked: %g\n", res);
  }

  return 0;
}


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