Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:43:11 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <271654446E1@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> (A.APPLEYARD@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk)
Subject: Re: acos(2.0) and other errors


> To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

You do realize that you just send TWO copies of this mail to the list
AND the newsgroup, don't you?

> I am sick of program runs being hostage to one stray floating point overflow.
> What I want is one or both of (1) Being able to tell the PC to carry on
> regardless if overflow happens, 

This would be the _control87() function

>                                 (2) Being able to tell the PC to go to such
> and such an address if overflow happens.

This would be signal() on SIGFPE.