Re: FPEs on FreeBSD

From:	Zeev Suraski	Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2001 22:06:10 +0000
Subject:	Re: FPEs on FreeBSD
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At 19:53 21/12/2000, Sascha Schumann wrote:

    FreeBSD's nawk uses this code:

    fpsetround(FP_RN); /* round to nearest */
    fpsetmask(0L);

    Is there any reason why we cannot use the same settings?

I guess since nothing good can happen from a SIGFPE, setting the mask to 0 is not a bad idea... Zeev