Re: Gentlemen, start your engines...

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 06 October 2006 04:36 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Ethan Merritt wrote:
> >
> > Digital Unix 4.0D (DECC compiler)
> >  - Builds OK, but ...
> >  - triggers floating exception in surface1.dem
> > 	(Bug #1572268)
> >  - triggers floating exception in image.dem when trying to
> >    read deliberately wrong-endian binary data
> > 	(maybe we should remove this demo)
>
> What happens on the DEC with
>
> set samples 101
> plot 1/x

Nothing special.  The issue is not divide-by-zero or underflow.
The wrong-endian exception is from trying to do anything at all
with a  bit pattern that is not a valid floating point number.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA