On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:58 AM, hugo rivera <uai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > float operations are causing me some headaches on plan 9 (9vx). > I have a program that crashes badly when I feed it with near-the-top > doubles ~1.1e308. This causes an overflow in a function that needs to > square this values and acid points the line where the first call to > pow(2) occurs when I debug it. The problem is that this doesn't happen > at all when the program is compiled with gcc (9c) on linux. Obviously > my results aren't useful,
yes, so I wonder, under what circumstances would you want this non-useful output? Are you going to do further computation with the number that you can not represent? I almost prefer the Plan 9 behavior in this case ... ron
