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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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* Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> [000310 13:58] 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.

I haven't had the time to test this, but integer divide by zero is
still trapped?  And you're right, using fp on solaris/irix doesn't
bomb out when doing / 0, but does for integer math.

thanks,
-Alfred


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