< said:
> fpsetmask(3) also exists on Solaris.
fpsetmask(3) was copied from System V.
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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:28:43AM +0100, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> FreeBSD's fpsetmask(3) stuff is simple inline assembler that I
> personally used in Linux, it should be relativly easy to carry it
> around with your application on i386 machines.
fpsetmask(3) also exists on Solaris.
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, David Malone wrote:
> Is there a way of setting the control word which is in any sense
> portable? Most machines I've looked at seem to have no documented
> way of setting what exceptions should be masked, and each one that
> does has a different set of calls.
No. C99 provi
At 10:28 AM +0100 2000/3/21, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> It is an i386 assembler instruction. Obviously, operating system
> vendors thought it's not their business, but the compiler's.
> Unfortunately, gcc doesn't care (although most other native compilers
> like SRC m3, CMUCL, SML/NJ do).
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Malone wrote:
> > > 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 mu
> > 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 w
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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
