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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: SIGFPE on arithmetic overflow 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:14:55 GMT."
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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:14:55 GMT, David Malone wrote:

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

It still bombs, although fpsetmask(0) does the trick.  I'm really
interested in hearing what causes the difference in behaviour.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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