[vox-tech] help with signals and C

[Jeff Newmiller]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

> hi all,
> 
> can someone post some example code of how to trap a SIGFPE signal and
> abort execution during the course of a C program on linux?

Is this what you are looking for?

http://www.csl.mtu.edu/cs4411.ck/www/NOTES/signal/install.html

I have never tried to make sensible use of SIGFPE in particular...
http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/glibc-manual-0.02/library_21.html
gives some reaons why this is problematic (also in info under libc).
This is one reason why a Numerical Computation workgroup formed shortly
after ratification of C89, but I don't know how the results of their
efforts fared in C99.

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