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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 09:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu>
To: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
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On 19 Apr 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

>
> ISO C demands that at process startup all FPU traps are masked.  You
> can set specific traps with the functions in <fenv.h> from the C
> library, for details read the manual: info libc
>
> Andreas
>

Thanks, this is what I needed.  I guessed that there was something like
this but even in the online glib manual where they have an extensive
section on signals and FPE's, they somehow fail to mention this.

I truly appreciate it, and hope I didn't contribute too much to noise on
the kernel list.

   rgb

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