From owner-cvs-all Fri Mar 10 13:46:19 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F4137BACF; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 13:46:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA21194; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:18:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:18:10 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: Garrett Wollman , Doug Rabson , Martin Cracauer , 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> References: <200003101756.JAA90710@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000310133936.B14279@fw.wintelcom.net> <200003102122.QAA18594@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20000310224053.B4626@lucifer.bart.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000310224053.B4626@lucifer.bart.nl>; from asmodai@bart.nl on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:40:53PM +0100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven [000310 14:12] wrote: > -On [20000310 22:30], Garrett Wollman (wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) wrote: > >< 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