Re: Divide by zero in Lua 5.2 alpha

On 9 March 2011 13:14, Chodera, Ian <Ian.Chodera@delphi.com> wrote:

If you don't explicitly check for zero before attempting a divide (on PC's etc) the hardware / FPU will generate the exception, I don't think it something specific to Borland C++

Ian

>It might be a quirk of the Borland compiler - I remember that it set
>floating-point overflows etc to be exceptions by default.

>steve d.

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