Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:15:08PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
| > Robert Dewar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > 
| > > Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
| > > 
| > > > We do want to generate a trap for x / 0, of course.
| > > 
| > > Really? Is this really defined to generate a trap in C?
| > > I would be surprised if so ...
| > 
| > As far as I know, but I think it would be a surprising change for x /
| > 0 to silently continue executing.
| > 
| 
| That's exactly what happens on PPC.

Indeed, and Andrew Pinski corrected numeric_limits<int> to reflect
the reality on PPC for that specific case.

C++ forces compilers to reveal their semantics for built-in types
through numeric_limits<>.  Every time you change the behaviour,
you also implicilty break an ABI.

-- Gaby

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