On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:50:26PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: > 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.
Using the -mieee did cause PSPP to produce a NaN in the output. -Jason _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
