Jason Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Well, that's good news at least. Does NetBSD have feholdexcept() or __setfpucw()? -- "Unix... is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." --Neal Stephenson _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
