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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: SIGFPE on arithmetic overflow
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On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 03:43:37PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> The following code, compiled on a stock FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT machine
> cores on SIGFPE.  On a NetBSD 1.4.1 machine (gcc-2.91.60), the program
> prints the value of INT_MAX.

Try adding a fpsetmask(fpgetmask()&(~FP_X_OFL)); before the calculation
and see what happens.

	David.


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