Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 12:12:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Dr. András Sólyom" <solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu>
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Subject: Re: Code to Fix sinh() in libm.a
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Dr. András Sólyom wrote:

> What is the case with GCC ? DOes it allow to catch/test all possible floating
> point exceptions?

I don't really understand what exactly is the problem with MSC, so I
cannot give any definitive answer.

DJGPP allows you to control the FPU behavior by providing a function
to set the x87 control word.  For example, setting a certain bit there
would cause SIGFPE to be delivered to your program if you try to
compute exp(MAX_INT).

If you ask whether GCC emits instructions which change the x87 status
word, then I don't think it does, at least in simple programs that I
tried.