From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] store NaN() to memory traps on 386 (387)
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 12:17:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ffae0e971d8c0fec19403a3ed25932ca@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <270eda7700e017a3d79285a841a3450b@felloff.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-02 19:17 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 [this message]
2016-05-02 19:27 ` Ryan Gonzalez
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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