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Comment: removed line about floating point instructions; reviewed

According to the C Standard, subclause 7.14.1.1 [ISO/IEC 9899:2011], returning from a SIGFPE , SIGILL, or SIGSEGV or any other implementation-defined value corresponding to a computational exception signal handler is undefined behavior 130.  Furthermore, SIGFPE may not be caught for a significant number of instructions after the floating-point instruction that creates it.

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