[ILUG] C - catching or ignoring SIGFPE

[Kevin O Riordan]

Ah, perfect.   Lewine's "POSIX Programmers Guide" said that a program
"should not assume that it can continue from a SIGFPE ...", but I was
wondering if there was some trick I was missing.

Thanks to all,
-kev



On Boomtime, the 25th day of The Aftermath, Dave Neary roared:
> > 
> The devil's in the detail here. At the end of the manpage for sigaction,
[snip]
>        tions.  Integer division by zero has undefined result.  On
>        some architectures  it  will  generate  a  SIGFPE  signal.
[snip]
>        ate SIGFPE.)  Ignoring this signal might lead to  an  end­
>        less loop."
[snip]
> Sorry there's no better answer than "You can't, in general", but there
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave.
> 
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