The C++ Sucks Series: the quest for the entry point

Suppose you run on the x86 and you don’t like its default FPU settings. For example, you want your programs to dump core when they divide by zero or compute a NaN, having noticed that on average, these events aren’t artifacts of clever numerical algorithm design, but rather indications that somebody has been using uninitialized memory. It’s not necessarily a good idea for production code, but for debugging, you can tweak the x86 FPU thusly:

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