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Detecting support for trapping floating-point exceptions on ARM
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: libc-ports at sourceware dot org, linux-arm-kernel at lists dot infradead dot org
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 19:11:18 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Detecting support for trapping floating-point exceptions on ARM
ARM VFPv3 and VFPv4 do not support trapping floating-point exceptions;
VFPv2, VFPv3U and VFPv4U do. The lack of support causes the glibc
math/test-fenv test to fail on VFPv3 and VFPv4 systems.
The natural fix for that would be for fesetenv (FE_NOMASK_ENV) to fail on
hardware not supporting trapping exceptions. There is, however, no HWCAP
bit to indicate whether trapping floating-point exceptions is supported.
Could one be added to the kernel, or is there a good way fesetenv could
detect this from userspace without a new HWCAP bit?
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com