PR_SET_FPEMU(2const)

PR_SET_FPEMU2const

Set floating-point emulation control bits

Usage

#include <linux/prctl.h>  /* Definition of PR_* constants */
#include <sys/prctl.h>

int prctl(PR_SET_FPEMU, long fpemu);

Library

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

Overview

Set floating-point emulation control bits to fpemu. Pass PR_FPEMU_NOPRINT to silently emulate floating-point operation accesses, or PR_FPEMU_SIGFPE to not emulate floating-point operations and send SIGFPE instead.

Return value

On success, 0 is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

Errors

EINVAL

fpemu is not a valid value.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 13 (Trixie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 13
  2. Arch

Standards

Linux. ia64 only.

History

Linux 2.4.18, 2.5.9. (ia64)

From man-pages 6.19-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.