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From: Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] store NaN() to memory traps on 386 (387)
Date: Mon,  2 May 2016 14:27:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO41-mN45T3QTYkcUhbVsbsHW_njOupZE7RXPXTZscJEjp7BUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ffae0e971d8c0fec19403a3ed25932ca@lilly.quanstro.net>

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Not crash into a flaming ball of (very vague) fire?

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:17 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
wrote:

> On Mon May  2 12:07:58 PDT 2016, cinap_lenrek@felloff.net wrote:
> >
> > > file under: awk was really designed for pre-posix unix.  :-)
> >
> > its not just about awk. whenever you want to convert a string to
> > a floating point number under plan9 you'll have to deal with this
> > problem:
> >
> > cpu% seq nan
> > seq 11791387: suicide: sys: fp: invalid operation fppc=0x2635
> status=0x8081 pc=0x0000122f
>
> that seems reasonable to me.  what could seq possibly do with nan?
>
> - erik
>
>


-- 
Ryan
[ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your
program. Something’s wrong.
http://kirbyfan64.github.io/

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-02 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-30 12:40 cinap_lenrek
2016-04-30 23:47 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-02 10:16 ` erik quanstrom
2016-05-02 16:36   ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-02 16:45     ` erik quanstrom
2016-05-02 19:05       ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-02 19:17         ` erik quanstrom
2016-05-02 19:27           ` Ryan Gonzalez [this message]
2016-05-02 23:23             ` erik quanstrom
2016-05-03  1:13               ` cinap_lenrek
2016-05-02 19:49           ` cinap_lenrek

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