floating point constants

Ari Halberstadt ari at eleazar.dartmouth.edu
Thu Jul 27 06:29:05 AEST 1989


In article <1925 at arisia.Xerox.COM> leisner at arisia.Xerox.COM (Marty Leisner) writes:
>Is this a valid C program?  gcc 1.35 handles it fine on a sun386i --
>main()
>{
>        printf("%f\n", 1.0/0.0);
>        printf("%f\n", -1.0/0.0);
>        printf("%f\n", 0.0/0.0);
>}

Why on earth would anyone want to compile that :-)?
I think it's quite legal C, but it's total giberish, since if the compiler
compiled it, it would simply result in a divide by zero, which any normal
maching would have a fit over.

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