Debugging a Program With dbx

Determining the Cause of the Exception

To determine the cause of the exception, use the regs -f command to display the floating point state register (FSR). Look at the accrued exception (aexc) and current exception (cexc) fields of the register, which contain bits for the following floating-point exception conditions:

For more information on the floating point state register, see Version 8 (for V8) or Version 9 (for V9) of The SPARC Architecture Manual.For more discussion and examples, see the floating point manual, Numerical Computation Guide.