Re: port-alpha/6634 (divide by zero gives strange results on alpha)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-alpha/6634; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: David Huang <khym%azeotrope.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-alpha/6634 (divide by zero gives strange results on alpha)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:55:04 +0000

 On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:34:18AM -0500, David Huang wrote:
 >> Feedback timeout. Anyone with an alpha want to test the current state 
 >> of things?
 >
 > yerfable /tmp> uname -a
 > [...]
 > yerfable /tmp> ./float
 > i: inf
 > j: inf
 
 Looks as if the compiler part of the problem is fixed. Thanks for
 testing...
 
 Since it doesn't appear that forcing -mieee everywhere is a
 particularly good idea (and, realistically, anything that wants to
 divide by zero freely needs a SIGFPE handler) I think we can close the
 PR.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost