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.Dd March 16, 2005
.Dt FENV 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm feclearexcept ,
.Nm fegetexceptflag ,
.Nm feraiseexcept ,
.Nm fesetexceptflag ,
.Nm fetestexcept ,
.Nm fegetround ,
.Nm fesetround ,
.Nm fegetenv ,
.Nm feholdexcept ,
.Nm fesetenv ,
.Nm feupdateenv ,
.Nm feenableexcept ,
.Nm fedisableexcept ,
.Nm fegetexcept
.Nd floating-point environment control
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libm
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In fenv.h
.Fd "#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON"
.Ft int
.Fn feclearexcept "int excepts"
.Ft int
.Fn fegetexceptflag "fexcept_t *flagp" "int excepts"
.Ft int
.Fn feraiseexcept "int excepts"
.Ft int
.Fn fesetexceptflag "const fexcept_t *flagp" "int excepts"
.Ft int
.Fn fetestexcept "int excepts"
.Ft int
.Fn fegetround void
.Ft int
.Fn fesetround "int round"
.Ft int
.Fn fegetenv "fenv_t *envp"
.Ft int
.Fn feholdexcept "fenv_t *envp"
.Ft int
.Fn fesetenv "const fenv_t *envp"
.Ft int
.Fn feupdateenv "const fenv_t *envp"
.Ft int
.Fn feenableexcept "int excepts"
.Ft int
.Fn fedisableexcept "int excepts"
.Ft int
.Fn fegetexcept void
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.In fenv.h
routines manipulate the floating-point environment,
which includes the exception flags and rounding modes defined in
.St -ieee754 .
.Ss Exceptions
Exception flags are set as side-effects of floating-point arithmetic
operations and math library routines, and they remain set until
explicitly cleared.
The following macros expand to bit flags of type
.Vt int
representing the five standard floating-point exceptions.
.Bl -tag -width ".Dv FE_DIVBYZERO"
.It Dv FE_DIVBYZERO
A divide-by-zero exception occurs when the
.Em exact
result of a computation is infinite (according to the limit definition).
For example, dividing a finite non-zero number by zero or computing
.Fn log 0
raises a divide-by-zero exception.
.It Dv FE_INEXACT
An inexact exception is raised whenever there is a loss of accuracy
due to rounding.
.It Dv FE_INVALID
Invalid operation exceptions occur when a program attempts to
perform calculations for which there is no reasonable representable
answer.
For instance, subtraction of like-signed infinities, division of zero by zero,
ordered comparison involving \*(Nas, and taking the real square root of a
negative number are all invalid operations.
.It Dv FE_OVERFLOW
In contrast with divide-by-zero,
an overflow exception occurs when an infinity is produced because
the magnitude of the exact result is
.Em finite
but too large to fit in the destination type.
For example, computing
.Li DBL_MAX * 2
raises an overflow exception.
.It Dv FE_UNDERFLOW
Underflow occurs when the result of a computation loses precision
because it is too close to zero.
The result is a subnormal number or zero.
.El
.Pp
Additionally, the
.Dv FE_ALL_EXCEPT
macro expands to the bitwise OR of the above flags and any
architecture-specific flags.
Combinations of these flags are passed to the
.Fn feclearexcept ,
.Fn fegetexceptflag ,
.Fn feraiseexcept ,
.Fn fesetexceptflag ,
and
.Fn fetestexcept
functions to clear, save, raise, restore, and examine the
processor's floating-point exception flags, respectively.
.Pp
Exceptions may be
.Em unmasked
with
.Fn feenableexcept
and masked with
.Fn fedisableexcept .
Unmasked exceptions cause a trap when they are produced, and
all exceptions are masked by default.
The current mask can be tested with
.Fn fegetexcept .
.Ss Rounding Modes
.St -ieee754
specifies four rounding modes.
These modes control the direction in which results are rounded
from their exact values in order to fit them into binary
floating-point variables.
The four modes correspond with the following symbolic constants.
.Bl -tag -width ".Dv FE_TOWARDZERO"
.It Dv FE_TONEAREST
Results are rounded to the closest representable value.
If the exact result is exactly half way between two representable
values, the value whose last binary digit is even (zero) is chosen.
This is the default mode.
.It Dv FE_DOWNWARD
Results are rounded towards negative \*[If].
.It Dv FE_UPWARD
Results are rounded towards positive \*[If].
.It Dv FE_TOWARDZERO
Results are rounded towards zero.
.El
.Pp
The
.Fn fegetround
and
.Fn fesetround
functions query and set the rounding mode.
.Ss Environment Control
The
.Fn fegetenv
and
.Fn fesetenv
functions save and restore the floating-point environment,
which includes exception flags, the current exception mask,
the rounding mode, and possibly other implementation-specific
state.
The
.Fn feholdexcept
function behaves like
.Fn fegetenv ,
but with the additional effect of clearing the exception flags and
installing a
.Em non-stop
mode.
In non-stop mode, floating-point operations will set exception flags
as usual, but no
.Dv SIGFPE
signals will be generated as a result.
Non-stop mode is the default, but it may be altered by
.Fn feenableexcept
and
.Fn fedisableexcept .
The
.Fn feupdateenv
function restores a saved environment similarly to
.Fn fesetenv ,
but it also re-raises any floating-point exceptions from the old
environment.
.Pp
The macro
.Dv FE_DFL_ENV
expands to a pointer to the default environment.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following routine computes the square root function.
It explicitly raises an invalid exception on appropriate inputs using
.Fn feraiseexcept .
It also defers inexact exceptions while it computes intermediate
values, and then it allows an inexact exception to be raised only if
the final answer is inexact.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON
double sqrt(double n) {
	double x = 1.0;
	fenv_t env;

	if (isnan(n) || n < 0.0) {
		feraiseexcept(FE_INVALID);
		return (NAN);
	}
	if (isinf(n) || n == 0.0)
		return (n);
	feholdexcept(&env);
	while (fabs((x * x) - n) > DBL_EPSILON * 2 * x)
		x = (x / 2) + (n / (2 * x));
	if (x * x == n)
		feclearexcept(FE_INEXACT);
	feupdateenv(&env);
	return (x);
}
.Ed
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cc 1 ,
.Xr feclearexcept 3 ,
.Xr fedisableexcept 3 ,
.Xr feenableexcept 3 ,
.Xr fegetenv 3 ,
.Xr fegetexcept 3 ,
.Xr fegetexceptflag 3 ,
.Xr fegetround 3 ,
.Xr feholdexcept 3 ,
.Xr feraiseexcept 3 ,
.Xr fesetenv 3 ,
.Xr fesetexceptflag 3 ,
.Xr fesetround 3 ,
.Xr fetestexcept 3 ,
.Xr feupdateenv 3 ,
.Xr fpgetprec 3 ,
.Xr fpsetprec 3
.Sh STANDARDS
Except as noted below,
.In fenv.h
conforms to
.St -isoC-99 .
The
.Fn feenableexcept ,
.Fn fedisableexcept ,
and
.Fn fegetexcept
routines are extensions.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.In fenv.h
header first appeared in
.Fx 5.3 .
It supersedes the non-standard routines defined in
.In ieeefp.h
and documented in
.Xr fpgetround 3 .
.Sh CAVEATS
The FENV_ACCESS pragma can be enabled with
.Dl "#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON"
and disabled with the
.Dl "#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS OFF"
directive.
This lexically-scoped annotation tells the compiler that the program
may access the floating-point environment, so optimizations that would
violate strict IEEE-754 semantics are disabled.
If execution reaches a block of code for which
.Dv FENV_ACCESS
is off, the floating-point environment will become undefined.
.Sh BUGS
The
.Dv FENV_ACCESS
pragma is unimplemented in the system compiler.
However, non-constant expressions generally produce the correct
side-effects at low optimization levels.