Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 11:17:15 +0100 (MET)
From: erik AT tntnhb3 DOT tn DOT tudelft DOT nl (Erik Luijten)
Subject: Re: floating p. exception behaves strange
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To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (djgpp)
Message-id: <9603071017.AA08174@tntnhb3.tn.tudelft.nl>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > In other words: it seems that the floating point exception of a previous
> > run affect the next run (at least if Win95 is the DPMI-host).
> 
> You can use _status87 and _control87 library functions to look at the 
> coprocessor status word and put it into a certain state as far as 
> floating exceptions are concerned.  Maybe the status word isn't cleared 
> by the default exception handler?
 
OK, but who's wrong ? DJGPP, CWSDPMI, Win95? Or should I simply
accept this behavior?

Erik