On 2007-01-16 13:08:18 -0800, David Daney wrote: > The difference is that your program didn't get killed by SIGFPE, it > just gave incorrect results.
An incorrect result is worse, but being killed by SIGFPE is still very bad. But I was mainly answering the claim "hard to believe this case appears in real code". IMHO, INT_MIN % -1 can appear just as 0 + LONG_MIN can appear, just as LONG_MIN / 1 can appear. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)