From: nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
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Subject: Re: Allegro perspective-correct .. (fpu memcopy)
Date: 4 Mar 1997 13:30:17 GMT
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> 	2) Cause your program to ignore FP exceptions by including the
> following somewhere at its beginning:
> 
> 	#include <signal.h>
> 	...
> 	signal (SIGFPE, SIG_IGN);

i wasn't aware you could do this actually. does this perhaps mean that you
could use a memcopy with fld and fstp and just ignore errors like this? it
would be much faster than the fild fistp version obviously...

regards,
nik


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Graham Tootell           
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