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--- Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o> wrote: |
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> Most of them that I've seen are divide-by-zero which |
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> is not a fatal |
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> exception according to ieee rules. |
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True. I have seen a few of those too, but not as many |
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as the uninitialized floats. But if you then go look |
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at the code, most of the time the authors never |
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intended that divide by zero to happen to begin with |
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anyway and the zero denominator is usually traced back |
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to a lurking bug. |
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That being said, there are certain classes of apps |
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that depend on ieee conformance. But those apps 99.9% |
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of the time know why they need such conformance and |
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why they need to use the "-mieee" option. |
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Unfortunately (for us), most apps that use it are only |
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using it to work around crashes that happen without |
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it, and no one really knows why for sure. |
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Jeff D |
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