Topic: True IEC550 behaviour (Was: Numerical C++, Division by Zero)


Author: Valentin Bonnard <Bonnard.V@wanadoo.fr>
Date: 1999/09/01
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Ron Natalie wrote:

> Yes, as the original poster pointed out it says that divide by
> zero provides UNDEFINED BEHAVIOR.  It needs to either be changed
> to IMPLEMENTATION DEFINED, or there needs to be text that says
> when the behavior is not UNDEFINED in the case of IEC559 compliant
> numerics.

...should be doable in a TC (or a TA)

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Valentin Bonnard
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