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[[email protected]: Re: floating point exceptions]



On whether FreeBSD should, by default, generate floating-point
exceptions.  Linux does not generate FPEs by default.

----- Forwarded message from Bill Fumerola <[email protected]> -----

Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:16:51 -0400
From: Bill Fumerola <[email protected]>
To: Dan Nelson <[email protected]>
Cc: Sheldon Hearn <[email protected]>,
        Brooks Davis <[email protected]>, Nate Lawson <[email protected]>,
        [email protected], [email protected],
        [email protected]
Subject: Re: floating point exceptions

On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:03:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:

> Why should we treat (1.0/0.0) any differently from (1/0)?

Because Linux has the uncanny ability to both divide by zero and produce
the shittiest coders the world has ever seen.

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