Re: giving up the FPU, MSR[FE0], MSR[FE1], and the FPSCR
From: Dan Malek <hidden>
Date: 2001-07-09 17:41:01
From: Dan Malek <hidden>
Date: 2001-07-09 17:41:01
Paul Mackerras wrote:
I believe that does work and that glibc uses it. Not that that is the ideal way to handle it... Albert Cahalan's suggestion of setting FE0/FE1 based on the disposition of the SIGFPE signal is a good one.
There was some discussion about how we handle the exception flags in FPSCR a long time (a year or more :-) ago. A search of the archives may turn up something (I haven't searched). I know there was a change to the library and the user ability to set this flags way back then....... -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/