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Re: netbsd build update
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
Re: netbsd build update |
Date: |
Thu, 18 May 2006 20:27:24 -0700 |
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John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:25:04PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
> Yes. I want to call fpsetmask(0) in fp_init(). (The numerous
> manpages that Google returns for fpsetmask() seem to indicate
> that this is the syntax to turn off all exceptions, and they all
> indicate that <ieeefp.h> is the right header to include.)
>
> I'm not sure that it might not be a better idea to catch SIGFPE and
> issue a warning message, and then continue.
Why?
Furthermore, I doubt it's possible portably. I suspect that some
CPUs will in fact retry the instruction and fault again in a loop.
--
"Implementation details are beyond the scope of the Java virtual
machine specification. One should not assume that every virtual
machine implementation contains a giant squid."
--"Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java"
- Re: netbsd build update, (continued)
- Re: netbsd build update, John Darrington, 2006/05/17
- Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/17
- Re: netbsd build update, Jason Stover, 2006/05/17
- Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/17
- Re: netbsd build update, Jason Stover, 2006/05/18
- Re: netbsd build update, Jason Stover, 2006/05/18
- Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/18
- Re: netbsd build update, Jason Stover, 2006/05/18
- Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/18
- Re: netbsd build update, John Darrington, 2006/05/18
- Re: netbsd build update,
Ben Pfaff <=
- Re: netbsd build update, John Darrington, 2006/05/19
- Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/19
- Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/19
- Re: netbsd build update, John Darrington, 2006/05/19
- Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/19
Re: netbsd build update, Ben Pfaff, 2006/05/16