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From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>
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check out fpsetmask. I had this problem too. In point of fact freebsd 
does the right thing here, since for any given program the choice of FPE 
handling is different. 

But also make sure you're running with the right math libraries!
ron

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