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Date:      Fri, 10 Oct 1997 22:42:48 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov (Glenn Johnson)
Subject:   Re: Floating point exceptions
Message-ID:  <19971010224248.AO49560@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199710101907.OAA09470@millenia.srrc.usda.gov>; from Glenn Johnson on Oct 10, 1997 14:07:33 -0500
References:  <199710101907.OAA09470@millenia.srrc.usda.gov>

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As Glenn Johnson wrote:

>  Is there a way for me to change the FreeBSD source code to mask
> FPE's rather than trap them? Better yet, can I do that for a
> specific application at compile time?

Not at compile-time, but at run-time:

#include <machine/floatingpoint.h>

...
	fpsetmask(0);

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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