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From: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott E. Townsend)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: IEEE exception handling
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Date: 28 Nov 90 22:48:35 GMT
Reply-To: fsset@bach.lerc.nasa.gov (Scott E. Townsend)
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[ sorry if this has been hashed around before, I haven't needed to deal with
  FORTRAN or numeric exceptions for quite a while ]

I don't want to start any religious wars, but I would like to know if there is
a standard way of configuring IEEE exception handling in FORTRAN.  I've looked
at Silicon Graphics 'handle_sigfpes' and Sun's sigfpe/ieee_handler stuff.
These are similar in function, but quite different at the user level.

Does manipulating the exception semantics really need to look so different?
I realize that the various flavors of UNIX tend to have different capabilities
regarding handling things like SIGBUS, but I had hoped the the numeric stuff
could be a bit more portable than I've seen so far.

Any enlightement would be appreciated.

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