From: hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] float overflow
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:57:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <138575261003260957o672da8edmd17102c30fa42c40@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df11003260944l57a38872v9633ca93500b3f9e@mail.gmail.com>
2010/3/26 ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:
> yes, so I wonder, under what circumstances would you want this
> non-useful output? Are you going to do further computation with the
> number that you can not represent? I almost prefer the Plan 9 behavior
> in this case ...
Well, I was expecting this question :-)
But I don't actually have a good answer. It just felt wrong to let the
program crash.
--
Hugo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-26 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-26 11:58 hugo rivera
2010-03-26 12:43 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 12:44 ` maht
2010-03-26 12:54 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 13:37 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-26 16:44 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 16:57 ` hugo rivera [this message]
2010-03-26 17:01 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:05 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:05 ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:22 ` hugo rivera
2010-03-26 17:46 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-26 20:23 ` ron minnich
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