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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: gdb on freeBSD Date: 8 Apr 1996 01:46:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4k9r57$23b@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4jtg1o$kam@holodeck.iss.nus.sg> <4k770o$er6@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4k80s8$tm@gate.ohs.ie> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 steveo@gate.ohs.ie (Steve O'Hara-Smith) writes: > >> Program received signal SIGFPE, Arithmetic exception. > >> 0x8051bd2 in __ieee754_exp () > > You probably need to add > > #include <floatingpoint.h> > .. > fpsetmask (0); However, this will only work if the application is able to handle the NaN's and infinity's that might arise out of this. Note that fpsetmask(0) will never generate a fault trap, even not in situations where IEEE still demands it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)