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From: Kbwms AT aol DOT com
Message-ID: <18.3444433d.2c77ba67@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:26:47 EDT
Subject: Re: Arithmetic Exceptions in C99
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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In a message dated 8/22/2003 1:41:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se writes:

> It sure sounds like SIGFPE should be triggered. How is setting a bit
> somewhere "raising an exception"?
> 

Probably a dangerous approach to trigger SIGFPE since printf raises 
exceptions quietly and frequently.  So do many of the math functions.

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