Re: Softfloat userland needing to properly deliver SIGFPE traps

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

martin%duskware.de@localhost said:
> sparc64 uses softfloat for 128 bit long double

If you have some basic FPU available, you could just cause
matching SIGFPEs using eg doubles. Eg assign
HUGE_VAL*HUGE_VAL to a double, or divide a double by zero.
The sun libm code does this in some cases.

best regards
Matthias



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