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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_18.3444433d.2c77ba67_boundary" X-Mailer: 8.0 for Windows sub 6011 Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com --part1_18.3444433d.2c77ba67_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. --part1_18.3444433d.2c77ba67_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 sett= ing a bit
somewhere "raising an exception"?


Probably a dangerous approach to trigger SIGFPE since printf raises exceptio= ns quietly and frequently.  So do many of the math functions. --part1_18.3444433d.2c77ba67_boundary--