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From: dan@math.berkeley.edu (Dan Strick)
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Subject: IEEE floating point arithmetic
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I am under the impression that the FreeBSD (gnu) C-compiler does
IEEE 754 compatible floating poing arithmetic and that this means
that floating point operations like (1.0 / 0.0) should return a
special value that means +infinity.  What I get is a core dump.
Am I supposed to include some special math library or give some
special cc command option?

Thanks,
	Dan Strick
	dan@math.berkeley.edu

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