John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure exactly what these functions do, but are you advocating > we should ignore floating point errors? It's ok to turn off FPE's if > we can ensure that the result of a floating point error will be NaN, > but if not, then I would rather have PSPP crash, than to carry on and > give erroneous output.
Yes, the result should be a NaN, and PSPP should present that to the user as a "system-missing" value. In my opinion, at least. That is the effect of disabling exceptions, or it should be. -- Ben Pfaff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
