It is often hard to find the origin of a NaN, since it can happen at any step of a computation and propagate itself. So is it possible to make a C++ program halt when a computation returns NaN or inf? The best in my opinion would be to have a crash with a nice error message:
Foo: NaN encoutered at Foo.c:624
Is something like this possible? Do you have a better solution? How do you debug NaN problems?
EDIT: Precisions: I m working with GCC under Linux.
You can t do it in a completely portable way, but many platforms provide C APIs that allow you to access the floating point status control register(s).
Specifically, you want to unmask the overflow and invalid floating-point exceptions, which will cause the processor to signal an exception when arithmetic in your program produces a NaN or infinity result.
On your linux system this should do the trick:
#include <fenv.h>
...
feenableexcept(FE_INVALID | FE_OVERFLOW);
You may want to learn to write a trap handler so that you can print a diagnostic message or otherwise continue execution when one of these exceptions is signaled.
Yes! Set (perhaps more or less portably) your IEEE 754-compliant processor to generate an interrupt when a NaN or infinite is encountered.
I googled and found these slides, which are a start. The slide on page 5 summarizes all the information you need.
I m no C expert, but I expect the answer is no.
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