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33 .Nd floating-point exception masking
38 .Fd "#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON"
40 .Fn feenableexcept "int excepts"
42 .Fn fedisableexcept "int excepts"
44 .Fn fegetexcept "void"
51 unmask and mask (respectively) exceptions specified in
56 returns the current exception mask.
57 All exceptions are masked by default.
59 Floating-point operations that produce unmasked exceptions will trap, and a
61 will be delivered to the process.
62 By installing a signal handler for
64 applications can take appropriate action immediately without
65 testing the exception flags after every operation.
66 Note that the trap may not be immediate, but it should occur
67 before the next floating-point instruction is executed.
69 For all of these functions, the possible types of exceptions
70 include those described in
72 Some architectures may define other types of floating-point exceptions.
79 functions return a bitmap of the exceptions that were unmasked
88 Functions in the standard library may trigger exceptions multiple
89 times as a result of intermediate computations;
90 however, they generally do not trigger spurious exceptions.
92 No interface is provided to permit exceptions to be handled in
94 There is no uniform way for an exception handler to access
95 information about the exception-causing instruction, or
96 to determine whether that instruction should be reexecuted
97 after returning from the handler.