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Add a note to fpectl docs that it's not built by default
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(bug #1556261).


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georg.brandl committed Oct 12, 2006
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\sectionauthor{Lee Busby}{[email protected]}
\modulesynopsis{Provide control for floating point exception handling.}

\note{The \module{fpectl} module is not built by default, and its usage
is discouraged and may be dangerous except in the hand of
experts. See also the section \ref{fpectl-limitations} on
limitations for more details.}

Most computers carry out floating point operations\index{IEEE-754}
in conformance with the so-called IEEE-754 standard.
On any real computer,
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\end{verbatim}


\subsection{Limitations and other considerations}
\subsection{Limitations and other considerations \label{fpectl-limitations}}

Setting up a given processor to trap IEEE-754 floating point
errors currently requires custom code on a per-architecture basis.
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