Re: [boost] enabling/disabling floating point exceptions

Subject: Re: [boost] enabling/disabling floating point exceptions
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-31 05:26:22

Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Exception is a rather overloaded word in software development. If you
> mean C++ exceptions (the only thing you can catch with a C++ catch),
> those can only be thrown with the throw keyword; 

No. I do not. This is how these things usually called. floating point signals,
floating point traps - these are also used.

> everything else is not portable.

Definitely. I am looking to create portable interface. Maybe in future it can be
standardized.

Gennadiy