Re: [Gcl-devel] [Maxima] Out of range floating point number determination

[Camm Maguire]

Raymond Toy <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     Greetings!
>    
>     I was hoping to abstract this at the C (rather than hardware specific
>     assembler) level.  Specifically the feenableexcept call provided in
>     fenv.h.  Playing around with this, it does indeed appear to be "oneshot".
>
> Sure, whatever makes it easy for you.  I'm not that familiar with the
> C interface, but the bits in the HW don't get cleared on a trap. This
> might be an artifact of how the trap handler works (sigaction or
> whatever).

It looks like mingw32 uses _controlfp.  Unfortunately, I cannot discover
how to clear the exception in the signal handler.  _clearfp(),
_controlfp(-1,_MCW_EM), etc, all raise an additional SIGFPE in the
handler, which is fatal.  Ideas?

Take care,
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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