Re: New HP backend

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:36:06 -0800

>>>>> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:38:18 +0100 (MET), Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij@caiw.nl> said:

Hugo> I did not test gama stuff as that bails out as well but for a
Hugo> different reason (floating point exception). Which is not a
Hugo> SANE issue I think.

On an Alpha, this typically happens because of non-finite arithmetic
(division by zero, operations on NaNs, etc.). This may be either
because a floating variable did not get initialized before used or
because the code really attempts to make use of non-finite arithmetic.
The latter should be avoided in SANE software because, for
portabilities sake, it should not assume support for IEEE non-finite
arithmetic.

Hope this helps in tracking down the problem,

--david

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