fedisableexcept(), and fegetexcept(). These two sets of routines
provide the same functionality. I implemented the former as an
undocumented internal interface to make the regression test easier to
write. However, fe(enable|disable|get)except() is already part of
glibc, and I would like to avoid gratuitous differences. The only
major flaw in the glibc API is that there's no good way to report
errors on processors that don't support all the unmasked exceptions.
features appear to work, subject to the caveat that you tell gcc you
want standard rather than recklessly fast behavior
(-mieee-with-inexact -mfp-rounding-mode=d).
The non-standard feature of delivering a SIGFPE when an application
raises an unmasked exception does not work, presumably due to a kernel
bug. This isn't so bad given that floating-point exceptions on the
Alpha architecture are not precise, so making them useful in userland
requires a significant amount of wizardry.
Reviewed by: standards@
