Re: FPE's

uessed that there was something like this but even in the online glib manual where they have an extensive section on signals and FPE's, they somehow fail to mention this. I truly appreciate it, and hope I didn't contribute too much to noise on the kernel list. rgb -- Robert G. Br

Re: FPE's

ISO C demands that at process startup all FPU traps are masked. You can set specific traps with the functions in from the C library, for details read the manual: info libc Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] private [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.suse.de/~aj - To un

FPE's

Dear Kernel Experts, A question recently arose on the beowulf list about determining the largest possible float or double (or the smallest) that would not overflow (or underflow) on a general system, which on the beowulf list is not unreasonably a general linux/gnu system. I suggested that one s