Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 1998 11:31:37 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Make thingy and Floating point err
In-Reply-To:	<01bd1ef4$e68d10e0$5c55aecc@mpanian.awinc.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980112113059.1820M-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On 12 Jan 1998, Luke wrote:

> C:\DJGPP\PROJECTS\3D\BOX.EXE BOX.DXF -W
> Loading DXF file...
> Exiting due to signal SIGFPE
> Floating Point exception at eip=000034f1
> eax=00056200 ebx=00000000 ecx=000041f8 edx=00000000 esi=00056218
> edi=00052b02
> ebp=00052bfe esp=00052aca program=C:\DJGPP\PROJECTS\3D\BOX.EXE

Won't it be better if FP exceptions printed the the x87 status word as
part of the traceback?  If this is a good idea, are there any caveats
in adding the code that accesses the status word to the traceback
printing function?  E.g., would calling `_status87' be okay?

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