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
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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?