This is actually included in the IEEE754 floating point standard - there's a concept of "trapping" vs. "non-trapping" exceptions, where implementations are allo

This is actually included in the IEEE754 floating point standard - there's a concept of "trapping" vs. "non-trapping" exceptions, where implementations are allowed to decide which exceptions should trap. Unfortunately, GCC only lets you enable this globally (within a program): see http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/FP-Exceptions.html#FP-Exceptions http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/FP-Excepti....