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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!news.alt.net!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!news.magicnet.net!news.sprintlink.net!ns1.tstt.net.tt!news From: feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Floating Point Exceptions Date: 1 Mar 1996 22:22:56 GMT Organization: Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago Lines: 18 Sender: feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt (Feisal Mohammed) Message-ID: <4h7tc0$fqu@ns1.tstt.net.tt> References: <4gqv91$r88@susscsc1.rdg.ac.uk> <4gta47$1bs@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: cuscon16s.tstt.net.tt X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In article <4gta47$1bs@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >FreeBSD doesn't really support full IEEE floatinpoint. > >If your program carefully checks for the exceptions, you might try > >#include <machine/floatingpoint.h> >... > fpsetmask(0); I tried this on one particular program RLaB, and got NaNs etc, but on exiting I get a message that RLaB exited with masked floating point exceptions. Can I ignore this message or do I have to actually reset the masks to default. -- Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt> Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171 Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies.