Re: SIGFPE with gcc 2.7.2.1 (from alphabits)

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Wed, 27 Aug 1997 19:00:48 -0700 (PDT)


> I'm getting a SIGFPE when multiplying together
> two SMALL numbers (~1e-311 and 1e-11).

If you want IEEE arithmetic, you have to compile with -mieee.
Otherwise, you'll just get exceptions for non-finite operands.

r~