FERAISEEXCEPT(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual FERAISEEXCEPT(3P)PROLOG
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NAMEferaiseexcept — raise floating-point exception
SYNOPSIS
#include <fenv.h>
int feraiseexcept(int excepts);
DESCRIPTION
The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the
ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here
and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2008
defers to the ISO C standard.
The feraiseexcept() function shall attempt to raise the supported
floating-point exceptions represented by the argument excepts. The
order in which these floating-point exceptions are raised is unspeci‐
fied. Whether the feraiseexcept() function additionally raises the
inexact floating-point exception whenever it raises the overflow or
underflow floating-point exception is implementation-defined.
RETURN VALUE
If the argument is zero or if all the specified exceptions were suc‐
cessfully raised, feraiseexcept() shall return zero. Otherwise, it
shall return a non-zero value.
ERRORS
No errors are defined.
The following sections are informative.
EXAMPLES
None.
APPLICATION USAGE
The effect is intended to be similar to that of floating-point excep‐
tions raised by arithmetic operations. Hence, enabled traps for float‐
ing-point exceptions raised by this function are taken.
RATIONALE
Raising overflow or underflow is allowed to also raise inexact because
on some architectures the only practical way to raise an exception is
to execute an instruction that has the exception as a side-effect. The
function is not restricted to accept only valid coincident expressions
for atomic operations, so the function can be used to raise exceptions
accrued over several operations.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
None.
SEE ALSOfeclearexcept(), fegetexceptflag(), fetestexcept()
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <fenv.h>
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