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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:00:28 +0000, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

> But then IEEE 754 exception semantics make even less sense than Linux
> signals. ...

Note that what IEEE 754 calls an “exception” is just a bunch of status 
bits reporting on the current state of the computation: there is no 
implication of some transfer of control elsewhere.