If an exception is trapped but the trap handler address is set to NULL, a default trap handler is used.

The default trap handler raises a SIGFPE signal. The default handler for SIGFPE prints an error message and terminates the program.

If you trap SIGFPE, you can declare your signal handler function to have a second parameter that tells you the type of floating-point exception that occurred. This feature is provided for compatibility with Microsoft products. The values are _FPE_INVALID, _FPE_ZERODIVIDE, _FPE_OVERFLOW, _FPE_UNDERFLOW and _FPE_INEXACT. They are defined in float.h. For example:

void sigfpe(int sig, int etype){
    printf("SIGFPE (%s)\n",
           etype == _FPE_INVALID ? "Invalid Operation" :
           etype == _FPE_ZERODIVIDE ? "Divide by Zero" :
           etype == _FPE_OVERFLOW ? "Overflow" :
           etype == _FPE_UNDERFLOW ? "Underflow" :
           etype == _FPE_INEXACT ? "Inexact Result" :
           "Unknown");
}
signal(SIGFPE, (void(*)(int))sigfpe);

To generate your own SIGFPE signals with this extra information, you can call the function __rt_raise() instead of the ISO function raise(). For example:

    __rt_raise(SIGFPE, _FPE_INVALID);

__rt_raise() is declared in rt_misc.h.