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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: debugging help asked for
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 09:52:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f641f38bd880a7b763daefed49992a74@hamnavoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10705211733p626de79aya19826b1405f6723@mail.gmail.com>

Ron says (ironically I hope):
> makes me feel warm and toasty inside

On a more serious note, why is the default in gcc/linux to switch off
floating point divide-by-zero exceptions?  Ron, are your "computational
scientist" colleagues really more comfortable when the intermediate
results of their calculataions are full of INFs and NANs?  Wouldn't
they rather be told when they're doing something mathematically invalid?



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-22  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21 18:23 Richard Miller
2007-05-21 18:29 ` Richard Miller
2007-05-22  0:33   ` ron minnich
2007-05-22  8:52     ` Richard Miller [this message]
2007-05-22 14:52       ` ron minnich

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