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Though floating point exception conditions and handling are standardized by IEEE \[[1]\], operating systems implement support for handling floating point errors and other conditions in different ways.

Operating System

Handling FP errors

Linux
Solaris 10
Mac OS X 10.5
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C99 FP functions - These functions are declared in fenv.h [Open Group 04]
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Before fenv.h based functions were standardized; an alternative to using these C99/fenv() functions is using ieee_flags and ieee_handler

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Windows

Structured Exception Handling - user defined handler _fpieee_flt [MSDN]
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Recommendation

Severity

Likelihood

Remediation Cost

Priority

Level

FLP03-A

1 (low)

2 (probable)

2 (medium)

P4

L3


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\[[1]\] IEEE standard for binary floating-point arithmetic
[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/standardstoc.jsp?isnumber=1316]
\[[Intel 01|AA. C References#Intel 01]\]
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\[[MSDN|AA. C References#MSDN]\] "[fpieee_flt (CRT)|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/te2k2f2t(VS.80).aspx]"
\[[Open Group 04|AA. C References#Open Group 04]\] "[fenv.h - Floating point environment|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/fenv.h.html]"
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