# 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, such as HP aCC, Oracle Studio, and IBM XL, support the `#pragma` explicitly, but most compilers allow meaningful access to the floating-point environment anyway.

### 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

### Functions

feclearexcept (C99) | clears the specified floating-point status flags (function)
fetestexcept (C99) | determines which of the specified floating-point status flags are set (function)
feraiseexcept (C99) | raises the specified floating-point exceptions (function)
fegetexceptflag fesetexceptflag (C99)(C99) | copies the state of the specified floating-point status flags from or to the floating-point environment (function)
fegetround fesetround (C99)(C99) | gets or sets rounding direction (function)
fegetenv fesetenv (C99) | saves or restores the current floating point environment (function)
feholdexcept (C99) | saves the environment, clears all status flags and ignores all future errors (function)
feupdateenv (C99) | restores the floating-point environment and raises the previously raise exceptions (function)

### Macros

FE_ALL_EXCEPT FE_DIVBYZERO FE_INEXACT FE_INVALID FE_OVERFLOW FE_UNDERFLOW (C99) | floating-point exceptions (macro constant)
FE_DOWNWARD FE_TONEAREST FE_TOWARDZERO FE_UPWARD (C99) | floating-point rounding direction (macro constant)
FE_DFL_ENV (C99) | default floating-point environment (macro constant)

### References

- C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):

  - 7.6 Floating-point environment <fenv.h> (p: 206-215)

  - 7.31.4 Floating-point environment <fenv.h> (p: 455)

- C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):

  - 7.6 Floating-point environment <fenv.h> (p: 187-196)

### See also

C++ documentation for Floating-point environment

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