From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 26 17:24:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895B637BD63; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:24:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA08864; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:24:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:24:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Andrew Reilly Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Brooks Davis , Nate Lawson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, davidm@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: floating point exceptions Message-ID: <20000426192416.A8019@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000425000523.A17224@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <24238.956752200@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <20000426110345.A13173@dan.emsphone.com> <20000427093434.A81401@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.9i In-Reply-To: <20000427093434.A81401@gurney.reilly.home>; from "Andrew Reilly" on Thu Apr 27 09:34:34 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the last episode (Apr 27), Andrew Reilly said: > > Because 0.0 might be the closest approximation to whatever > number you were really trying to divide by that the hardware can > manage. 0 is never an approximation to 1 or -1. Aaah, but that assumes you're not also trapping on underflow :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message