https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66480
--- Comment #7 from Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock at gmail dot com> --- (In reply to Steve Kargl from comment #6) > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 05:20:58PM +0000, nicolasbock at gmail dot com wrote: > > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=66480 > > > > --- Comment #5 from Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock at gmail dot com> --- > > Thanks for the comments. I should have understood this exception > > better before posting this as a bug. > > > > We would rather see a bug report and then simply close it > than to get no bug reports at all. It is unlikely that > one can avoid an inexact FPE in code involving floating > point unless the algorithm is specifically designed to > avoid it. Thanks :) I agree with you, from it's definition, the inexact result exception is going to be raised for most operations. Why would one want to trap it?