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From: stephen@mincom.OZ (Stephen Kirby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: SIGFPE
Message-ID: <289@mincom.OZ>
Date: 13 Dec 89 23:27:44 GMT
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Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia
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In article <624@chem.ucsd.EDU>, tps@chem.ucsd.edu (Tom Stockfisch) writes:
> With 3.2 floating point exceptions are ignored, with NaN's and Infinity's
> propagated through floating point exceptions, presumably according to
> IEEE rules.  I happen to prefer that all exceptions result in SIGFPE
> being raised, so that a process stops right away and either aborts
> or calls a signal()-specified error handler.
> 
> How can I achieve this?
> || Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry	tps@chem.ucsd.edu
         I wish to support this request.  We are attempting to develop
	 commercial software, and are very worried that our programs
	 don't crash during debugging when divide by zero's
         occur.  
 || Stephen Kirby, MINCOM