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SubjectRe: signal(SIGFPE,SIG_IGN), possible solution?
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960425074845.22041C-100000@linux.cs.Helsinki.FI>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> What is so horribly hard in understanding the fact that this is not a
> kernel issue at all. Why do people insist that the added code should go
> into the KERNEL, when the problem is in your broken programs?
>

No kidding. However, it seems to me that either SIGILL, SIGIOT or
SIGBUS (in decreasing order of personal preference) would be a better
signal than SIGFPE; I think it is reasonable that a program should be
able to expect that receiving a SIGFPE means an FP exception has
occurred.

By the way, how does one turn on FP exceptions (ideally, specific IEEE
exceptions) under Linux/i386?

-hpa
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