From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 27 10:54:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D2D37B573; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 10:53:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustidentd@obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15567; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:53:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39087EA5.34E6F2D2@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 11:53:41 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: Bill Fumerola , Dan Nelson , Sheldon Hearn , Brooks Davis , Nate Lawson , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, davidm@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: floating point exceptions References: <20000425000523.A17224@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <24238.956752200@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <20000426110345.A13173@dan.emsphone.com> <20000426121651.M40387@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000426192254.E1021@yedi.wbnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:16:51PM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 11:03:45AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > > Why should we treat (1.0/0.0) any differently from (1/0)? > > > > Because Linux has the uncanny ability to both divide by zero and produce > > the shittiest coders the world has ever seen. > > Which brings me to the inevitable question: 'can NT divide by zero' ? ;-) No, at least not in US Navy installations. It also cannot recover from divide by zero errors, leading a brand new US warship to be towed in from sea trials. The NT-powered nuclear navy. Be afraid. Be very afraid. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message