On Friday 27 July 2007 11:42:57 pm Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:27:58 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > >> But it is not a floating point operation, they > >> are unsigned integers. At least on older systems > >> that I am familiar with, it is different hardware. > > > > what exactly are you expecting from x%y when y=0 ?? > > On other systems, more consistent with current > terminology, I have seen and can imagine: > arithmetic exception (good but vague) > fixed point exception (better) > integer div zero (best) > > Anything referring to floating point is simply wrong > (and suggests a basic lack of understanding on the > part of the author). Ok, I get your point now ;) As someone has already pointed this is actually always returned as a SIGFPE floating point exception, at least it has been for systems I've used... Chris
