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Re: feenableexcept and FE_NOMASK_ENV are broken on i386 (resend)
- From: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:58:38 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: feenableexcept and FE_NOMASK_ENV are broken on i386 (resend)
- References: <15607.24139.776568.701089@honolulu.ilog.fr><1025286278.25515.30.camel@myware.mynet>
Ulrich Drepper writes:
> The exception operations map directly to functionality in the CPU. ..
> This means that you won't get the exact exceptions for anything but long
> double operations. Everything else depends on the compiler and how and
> when it decides to convert from the internal format to float or double.
Thanks for the explanation. How about documenting this limitation in
the manual? I mean, around line 1067 of arith.texi.
Bruno