Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:50:24 +0100 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions. Message-ID: <20000321095024.A1011@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <200003210847.aa00165@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>; from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:47:00AM %2B0000 References: <200003210847.aa00165@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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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 <cracauer@cons.org> 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
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