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Re: Miscompilation of remainder expressions
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:15:08PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> 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.
> But perhaps not a very important one.
Indeed.
Gabriel