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From: pvkeer AT vub DOT ac DOT be (Vankeerberghen Pieter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Floating point exceptions
Date: 3 Jul 1996 07:59:00 GMT
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Rafael R. Sevilla (rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph) wrote:
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: Linux) seem to not work the same way as the Sun version. In particular the
: Sparc seems to forget that it's dividing by zero somewhere! There's a

AFAIK, this can be due to not complying to the IEE754 standard. Thus
you have to do this manually in DJGPP.

put in your DJGPP source right after main: 

_control87(MCW_EM, MCW_EM);

and #include <float.h> in the beginning, of course. 

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