From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] comparisons with NaN
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:27:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77b9c9c07986e90a78b168a3ea1cc9ec@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <879627248a8cc463c48ffd1b1cc78f51@proxima.alt.za>
On Wed Aug 21 14:23:48 EDT 2013, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > what i mean is, the need for fixing it depends on how much
> > havoc this issue causes.
>
> Well, there is also the question of whether anything at all will break
> if the bug is fixed. If not, then the answer is simple.
fortunately, since plan 9 traps when a computation produces a NaN by default,
and nothing in /sys/src/cmd calls setfcr(2), i think we can exclude this possiblity.
- erik
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-21 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-21 13:17 Richard Miller
2013-08-21 14:34 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 16:08 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-21 16:55 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 17:42 ` Bakul Shah
2013-08-21 17:47 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 18:00 ` Bakul Shah
2013-08-21 18:00 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-21 18:24 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-08-22 14:05 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-22 14:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2013-09-20 9:05 ` Richard Miller
2013-08-21 14:36 ` erik quanstrom
2013-08-21 18:24 ` lucio
2013-08-21 18:27 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
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