[Python-Dev] alpha problems -- need input
"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. test_float and test_struct 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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