From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 21 0:50:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from knight.cons.org (knight.cons.org [194.233.237.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB6E37B748 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:50:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cracauer@knight.cons.org) Received: (from cracauer@localhost) by knight.cons.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA01307; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:50:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:50:24 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer To: David Malone Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions. Message-ID: <20000321095024.A1011@cons.org> References: <200003210847.aa00165@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003210847.aa00165@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:47:00AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <200003210847.aa00165@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone wrote: > Floating point exceptions seem to have been turned off by default: [...] > There was a discussion on one of the list about what to do for > floating point excpetions recently, and I thought people decided > that causing a signal by default was a right thing? The outcome was that applications that care must set the control word themself and that we go the way of least resistance for the rest. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message