I remember my surprise on a DEC Alpha in late 2001 when I did something like acos(3) and the floating-point exception triggered a core dump. As I recall, on the

I remember my surprise on a DEC Alpha in late 2001 when I did something like acos(3) and the floating-point exception triggered a core dump. As I recall, on the other OSes I used, SIGFPE was by default ignored.