Report bugs for variations in error handling in math functions?

[Michael Kerrisk]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Michael Kerrisk
<mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> I think the correct approach is to consider it a bug if functions do not
>> set errno, or do not raise exceptions - that is, all of (b), (c) and (d) are
>> bugs.  This would allow math_errhandling to be MATH_ERRNO|MATH_ERREXCEPT
>> unless translation units are compiled with options preventing this, and make
>> the error handling options available consistent across the math.h functions
>> supported by glibc.  To conform with C99, at least one approach (errno or
>> exceptions) must be consistently supported across all the functions, in any
>> case.
>
> I've reported bugs for all of the non-conformances I found.

What I really should have said here is "non-conformances and
deviations from the/my ideal that all errors would be reported both
via errno and exceptions".  Anyway, one for the list:

http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6814