Fwd: __setfpucw

[Zack Weinberg]

On 20 May 1999 22:10:07 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:
>
>> Can I get some comments on this?
>
>__setfpucw is internal and always should have treated like this.
>Glibc 2.1 provides the functionality in a standard interface (see
>fenv.h).

The C9x <fenv.h> interface isn't nearly as flexible as some programs would
like.  You can't request signals for a specific subset of the IEEE
exceptions, for instance.  I'd like to see the SVID <ieeefp.h> interface in
2.2.

zw