Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 02:08:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions Message-ID: <199710110208.TAA09898@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971010173132.11671G-100000@localhost> from "Chuck Robey" at Oct 10, 97 05:34:04 pm
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> Terry, I figured if he understood his application's math well enough to do > the first fix, he'd have done it without asking us. Your worst case fix > doesn't have to be that way, he could set up a signal catcher, so that he > could identify which calculations are killing him, then maybe fix the code > from there. That's what I'd likely do, if I couldn't spot the original > killing calculation. Disagree? Nope; good plan, so long as the data being operated upon is the same each time; if it's a signal processing application, it's trouble. It'd help to know if it's overflow, underflow, or whatever, in any case, so a handler is the best bet. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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