[Python-Dev] alpha problems -- need input (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Mar 30 08:35:59 CEST 2006


Neal Norwitz wrote:

The question is how to fix these. testfloat and teststruct fail due to a Floating Point Exception signal (SIGFPE).

I would hope that there is some way to control the floating point error mode of the CPU (*). Changing it would be one option; Tim hopefully can tell us whether it's a good idea to do so.

Regards, Martin

(*) I believe you use some #pragma for that in C99; before, there might be some libc or libm API to manipulate the error mode.



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