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27.Dd May 8, 2004
28.Dt FEGETENV 3
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm fegetenv ,
32.Nm feholdexcept ,
33.Nm fesetenv ,
34.Nm feupdateenv
35.Nd floating-point environment save and restore
36.Sh LIBRARY
37.Lb libm
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.In fenv.h
40.Fd "#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON"
41.Ft int
42.Fn fegetenv "fenv_t *envp"
43.Ft int
44.Fn feholdexcept "fenv_t *envp"
45.Ft int
46.Fn fesetenv "const fenv_t *envp"
47.Ft int
48.Fn feupdateenv "const fenv_t *envp"
49.Sh DESCRIPTION
50The floating-point environment includes exception flags and masks, the
51current rounding mode, and other architecture-specific settings.
52However, it does not include the floating-point register file.
53.Pp
54The
55.Fn fegetenv
56function stores the current floating-point environment in the object
57pointed to by
58.Fa envp ,
59whereas
60.Fn feholdexcept
61saves the current environment, then clears all exception flags
62and masks all floating-point exceptions.
63.Pp
64The
65.Fn fesetenv
66function restores a previously saved environment.
67The
68.Fn feupdateenv
69function restores a saved environment as well, but it also
70raises any exceptions that were set in the environment it
71replaces.
72.Pp
73The
74.Fn feholdexcept
75function is often used with
76.Fn feupdateenv
77or
78.Fn fesetenv
79to suppress spurious exceptions that occur as a result of
80intermediate computations.
81An example in
82.Xr fenv 3
83demonstrates how to do this.
84.Sh RETURN VALUES
85The
86.Fn fegetenv ,
87.Fn feholdexcept ,
88.Fn fesetenv ,
89and
90.Fn feupdateenv
91functions return 0 if they succeed, and non-zero otherwise.
92.Sh SEE ALSO
93.Xr feclearexcept 3 ,
94.Xr fenv 3 ,
95.Xr feraiseexcept 3 ,
96.Xr fesetenv 3 ,
97.Xr fetestexcept 3 ,
98.Xr fpgetmask 3 ,
99.Xr fpgetprec 3 ,
100.Xr fpsetmask 3 ,
101.Xr fpsetprec 3
102.Sh STANDARDS
103The
104.Fn fegetenv ,
105.Fn feholdexcept ,
106.Fn fesetenv ,
107and
108.Fn feupdateenv
109functions conform to
110.St -isoC-99 .
111.Sh HISTORY
112These routines first appeared in
113.Fx 5.3 .
114