Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Apr 1996 21:14:49 +0100 | From | Matthew J Brown <> | Subject | Re: signal(SIGFPE,SIG_IGN), possible solution? |
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H. Peter Anvin writes: > 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.
I think this is another of those Historical Reasons things ... this is what various other flavours of UNIX do, and changing it would break compatibility. It seems to me that SIGFPE should really be named SIGMATH or something like that, to indicate that it's a general math error signal (integer and float) rather than float specifically, but I guess we're stuck with it now.
-Matt
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