Re: I want my FPE!

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Mark Geisert wrote:

> Is there something I need to do to "condition" the Cygwin environment to
> generate FP exceptions?  I saw the code in winsup/something/or/other to map x86
> FP exceptions to SIGFPE but it seems somehow the exceptions aren't being
> generated in the first place.

  Very possibly not.  There's probably a bit in the FPUCW you need to set or
something.  Ah, yes: see winsup/cygwin/crt0.c:

> /* In the following ifdef'd i386 code, the FPU precision is set to 80 bits
>    and all FPU exceptions are masked.  The former is needed to make long
>    doubles work correctly.  The latter causes the FPU to generate NaNs and
>    Infinities instead of signals for certain operations.
> */

> #define FPU_RESERVED 0xF0C0
> #define FPU_DEFAULT  0x033f

>   {
>     volatile unsigned short cw;
> 
>     /* Get Control Word */
>     __asm__ volatile ("fnstcw %0" : "=m" (cw) : );
> 
>     /* mask in */
>     cw &= FPU_RESERVED;
>     cw |= FPU_DEFAULT;
> 
>     /* set cw */
>     __asm__ volatile ("fldcw %0" :: "m" (cw));
>   }

  You can copy and paste that hunk into your own main() and change the
constants to anything you like.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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