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FERAISEEXCEPT(3P)					     POSIX Programmer's Manual						 FERAISEEXCEPT(3P)

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       ing Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME
       feraiseexcept - raise floating-point exception

SYNOPSIS
       #include <fenv.h>

       int feraiseexcept(int excepts);

DESCRIPTION
       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 unspecified. 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 successfully 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 exceptions 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 ALSO
       feclearexcept(), fegetexceptflag(), fesetexceptflag(), fetestexcept(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <fenv.h>

COPYRIGHT
       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2003 Edition, Standard for Information Technol-
       ogy -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6, Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by the Institute of
       Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and  the  original  IEEE
       and  The  Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained
       online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

IEEE
/The Open Group						       2003							 FERAISEEXCEPT(3P)