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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-10-12 11:41:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2006-10-12 11:41:11 (GMT) |
| commit | 10f0f691d3773011192532bd5030af98cd90b94f (patch) | |
| tree | 793bf8eb7fdfb8194c41c36b7ad8e4f29ab43b41 | |
| parent | 2c1375c8db6d62128f594aec3820292576daff8b (diff) | |
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Add a note to fpectl docs that it's not built by default
(bug #1556261).
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libfpectl.tex | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfpectl.tex b/Doc/lib/libfpectl.tex index 814e226..9cbf86e 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfpectl.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfpectl.tex @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ \sectionauthor{Lee Busby}{busby1@llnl.gov} \modulesynopsis{Provide control for floating point exception handling.} +\note{The \module{fpectl} module is not built by default, and its usage + is discouraged and may be dangerous except in the hand of + experts. See also the section \ref{fpectl-limitations} on + limitations for more details.} + Most computers carry out floating point operations\index{IEEE-754} in conformance with the so-called IEEE-754 standard. On any real computer, @@ -95,7 +100,7 @@ FloatingPointError: in math_1 \end{verbatim} -\subsection{Limitations and other considerations} +\subsection{Limitations and other considerations \label{fpectl-limitations}} Setting up a given processor to trap IEEE-754 floating point errors currently requires custom code on a per-architecture basis. |