Alastair Houghton schrieb: > AFAIK few systems have floating point traps enabled by default (in fact, > isn't that what IEEE 754 specifies?), because they often aren't very > useful. And in the specific case of the Python interpreter, why would > you ever want them turned on?
That reasoning is irrelevant. If it breaks a few systems, that already is some systems too many. Python should never crash; and we have no control over the floating point exception handling in any portable manner. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
