Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:18:10 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Martin Cracauer <cracauer@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include npx.h Message-ID: <20000310141810.E14279@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000310224053.B4626@lucifer.bart.nl>; from asmodai@bart.nl on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:40:53PM %2B0100 References: <200003101756.JAA90710@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102057080.79394-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net> <200003102122.QAA18594@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000310224053.B4626@lucifer.bart.nl>
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* Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl> [000310 14:12] wrote: > -On [20000310 22:30], Garrett Wollman (wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) wrote: > ><<On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:39:36 -0800, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> said: > > > >> Is there any reason for doing this other than so we can emulate > >> linux's bog^H^H^H nifty ability to divide by zero? > > > >The fact that the IEEE standard says this is the default state. > > My, does the IEEE encourage bad coding practices then. If I understood > the commit correctly. > > Just for the less kernelsavvy types under us, > > this commit make sures that my app won't segfault due to a division by > zero, right? I've been informed that it's only masked now for fp, integer / 0 will still blow up. Since it complies with the standard there's not much I can say except that the standard annoys me. :) Anyhow sorry about the outburst, I'll research things better next time. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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