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# Floating point environment

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The floating-point environment is the set of floating-point status flags and control modes supported by the implementation. It is thread-local, each thread inherits the initial state of its floating-point environment from the parent thread. Floating-point operations modify the floating-point status flags to indicate abnormal results or auxiliary information. The state of floating-point control modes affects the outcomes of some floating-point operations.

The floating-point environment access and modification is only meaningful when `#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS` is set to `ON`. Otherwise the implementation is free to assume that floating-point control modes are always the default ones and that floating-point status flags are never tested or modified. In practice, few current compilers support the `#pragma` explicitly, but most compilers allow meaningful access to the floating-point environment anyway.

### [edit] Types

Defined in header `<fenv.h>`
fenv_t | The type representing the entire floating-point environment
fexcept_t | The type representing all floating-point status flags collectively

### [edit] Functions

feclearexcept (C99) | clears the specified floating-point status flags (function) [edit]
fetestexcept (C99) | determines which of the specified floating-point status flags are set (function) [edit]
feraiseexcept (C99) | raises the specified floating-point exceptions (function) [edit]
fegetexceptflagfesetexceptflag (C99)(C99) | copies the state of the specified floating-point status flags from or to the floating-point environment (function) [edit]
fegetroundfesetround (C99)(C99) | gets or sets rounding direction (function) [edit]
fegetenvfesetenv (C99) | saves or restores the current floating point environment (function) [edit]
feholdexcept (C99) | saves the environment, clears all status flags and ignores all future errors (function) [edit]
feupdateenv (C99) | restores the floating-point environment and raises the previously raise exceptions (function) [edit]

### [edit] Macros

FE_ALL_EXCEPTFE_DIVBYZEROFE_INEXACTFE_INVALIDFE_OVERFLOWFE_UNDERFLOW (C99) | floating-point exceptions (macro constant) [edit]
FE_DOWNWARDFE_TONEARESTFE_TOWARDZEROFE_UPWARD (C99) | floating-point rounding direction (macro constant) [edit]
FE_DFL_ENV (C99) | default floating-point environment (macro constant) [edit]

| This section is incomplete Reason: FENV_ACCESS

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