[...]
> Actually, you can get the SIGFPE, but you must enable it. See below.
 [...]
> No, it's not a documentation error, you just haven't looked in the right
> place and no one has yet referred you to it. You need to see:
> 
> 	fp{get,set}{mask,round,sticky}(3)

Ah...  Thanks.


> (They are all the same page.) These will work on every NetBSD port except
> vax, I think, but they aren't portable to other systems except Sun and
> Sun-compatible ones.
 [...]
> For that matter, IEEE 754 has gone 20 years without a standardized API.
> (And hence, has gone 20 years without being used by any portable program.)
> C99 has now defined a standard floating environment, and NetBSD will be
> supporting it soon.

What does the C99 standard say about these?  Will the NetBSD signal man
pages be updated at the same time?


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu