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Subject: Re: Arithmetic Exceptions in C99
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> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:01:17 -0500
> From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
> 
> I am still of the opinion that it is 
> best to prevent the math functions from either raising signals or 
> setting exception bits in the FPU status register, because they can 
> crash a program and prevent recovery.

We could implement the exceptions bitmap as a special word that is
physically different from the x87 status register.  The functions that
return the exceptions info could then look at that word and also at
the x87 status word.

Would that be okay?