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Detecting support for trapping floating-point exceptions on ARM

by Joseph S. Myers :: Rate this Message:

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ARM VFPv3 and VFPv4 do not support trapping floating-point exceptions;
VFPv2, VFPv3U and VFPv4U do.  The lack of support causes the glibc
math/test-fenv test to fail on VFPv3 and VFPv4 systems.

The natural fix for that would be for fesetenv (FE_NOMASK_ENV) to fail on
hardware not supporting trapping exceptions.  There is, however, no HWCAP
bit to indicate whether trapping floating-point exceptions is supported.  
Could one be added to the kernel, or is there a good way fesetenv could
detect this from userspace without a new HWCAP bit?

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