feenableexcept()

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Unmask the specified floating-point exceptions

Synopsis:

#include <fenv.h>

int feenableexcept( int excepts );

Arguments:

excepts
A bitwise OR of the flags corresponding to the exceptions that you want to unmask; zero or more of the following:
  • FE_ALL_EXCEPT — all the bits
  • FE_DENORMAL — the result of a floating-point expression is a denormalized number
  • FE_DIVBYZERO — pole error
  • FE_INEXACT — the result can't be exactly represented as a floating-point number
  • FE_INVALID — domain error
  • FE_OVERFLOW — the result is too large to be representable
  • FE_UNDERFLOW — the result is subnormal with a loss of precision

Library:

libm
The general-purpose math library.
libm-sve
A library that optimizes the code for ARMv8.2 chips that have Scalable Vector Extension hardware.

Your system requirements will determine how you should work with these libraries:

  • If you want only selected processes to run with the SVE version, you can include both libraries in your OS image and use the -l m or -l m-sve option to qcc to link explicitly against the appropriate one.
  • If you want all processes to use the SVE version, include libm-sve.so in your OS image and set up a symbolic link from libm.so to libm-sve.so. Use the -l m option to qcc to link against the library.
Note:
Compile your program with the -fno-builtin option to prevent the compiler from using a built-in version of the function.

Description:

The feenableexcept() function unmasks the specified floating-point exceptions. To mask the exceptions, call fedisableexcept().

Unmasking a given floating-point exception means that if this exception occurs, the process will receive a SIGFPE signal and by the default action, terminate. For more information about this signal, see Summary of signals in the System Architecture Guide.

CAUTION:
This operation doesn't work on AArch64 targets. There's a known hardware limitation that causes any unmasking of floating-point exceptions to be ignored.

Returns:

A bitmap of the exceptions that were masked before you called this function.

Classification:

BSD, QNX OS

Safety:
Cancellation pointNo
Signal handlerYes
ThreadYes
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