J3/05-120 Date: 4 Jan 2005 To: J3 From: Fred Tydeman Subject: Raise then enable halting => halt? NUMBER: F03/0041 TITLE: IEEE halting and exceptions KEYWORDS: IEEE-754, trapping, exception DEFECT TYPE: ??? STATUS: For consideration QUESTION: If a specific Floating-Point (FP) exception flag is raised, and then HALTING for that FP exception is enabled for the first time, does the program halt? Or, must the specific FP exception happen after the halting is enabled for the program to halt? Section 14.5 [368:1-8] does not answer the question. DISCUSSION: ANSWER: EDITS: All edits refer to 04-007.pdf. SUBMITTED BY: Fred Tydeman HISTORY: J3/05-120 m171 Submitted