[issue37474] Should Py_Initialize() control the floating point mode?

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Should I understand that fedisableexcept(FE_OVERFLOW) is useless since FreeBSD 6?

That's my understanding, yes. And since it was only introduced in FreeBSD 6, it's been useless forever. IOW, I think it's true that this line of code, in its current form, hasn't ever had any effect.

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