Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 21:38:51 +0200 From: Kent Boortz <kentb@canit.se> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: fpresetsticky, fpsetmask Message-ID: <3415A5CB.3AA23825@canit.se>
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I have read the man page and done some experiments but can't quite understand the logic. If I want all errors like overflow, underflow and divide by zero result in an excdeption, I set the bits in 'fpsetmask()', right? But how does this 'fpresetsticky()' come into the picture? Could you please clearify how this works? I also read a note in mailing list that I "think" claimed that enabling a signal on floating point divide by zero also would trap integer divide by zero that doesn't restart correctly, causing an infinite loop. Is this true? And last, is this 'fpsetmask()'/'fresetsticky()' the same in other flawors of BSD? /kgb
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