Confusing compile error

[Bill Seurer]

Oink. Oink.

Please let the door hit you on your way out.

 

[Old Wolf]

NaN is the only appropriate response to a divide by zero.
And hanging is Never Ever the appropriate response.

*In your opinion*

If you had any paying clients, you'd already know that.

And in your clients opinion too, perhaps. Other paying clients
have different opinions. On IA32 platforms, AFAIK, it is slower
to check for zero and give a NaN than to go ahead and do the division.
For clients whose income depends on the speed of their application,
and are clever enough to not go around dividing by zero,
your philosophy would be a big turn-off.

You can argue till the cows come home,
I won't change my mind.

How old are you again?

And, Unless and until you show me an authoritative web link,
I'll continue to believe that NaN is the standard response.

If you have so many "paying clients" , why can't you afford
to read the C++ Standard ?

 

[Jeff Relf]

Hi Phlip,

You wrote,
" I wrote a program for PC and Linux,
and tossed it on the 'net.
Googling for it later revealed
a few people run it on the Sharp Zaurus PDA.
( It ain't in C++, though ! ;-) "

What language ? C ? What does it do ?

What with cheap flash memory and all,
Today's hand-helds are
far better than yesterday's big iron.

Linux on a hand-held is a real possibility these days ...
even for penniless people like me.

But I don't retract anything I said before,
A program that runs well on a cell phone
will not run _ Well _ on a dual CPU Mac G5
with a 40 inch LCD.

Customization is a fact of life.
Cross platform languages like C# are jokes, I say.

P.S. I had to repost this because
the Newsfroups: line apparently doesn't allow spaces.

 

[Jeff Relf]

Hi Old Wolf,

You're posting via Google ? Why the anonymity ?

Google is the mark of a troll where I come from.

You asked me:
' If you have so many " paying clients ",
why can't you afford to read the C++ Standard ? "

Although I have a high hourly rate,
I work _ Very _ few hours per year. Very few.

I'm all play and no work ...
makes jack less of a dull boy.

As for the speed of NaN's vs. Hanging ...

Hanging is slower.

By the way,
For a group of guys that proclaims a love of standards,
I'm amazed that no one here can point to
an authoritative link about
the default action when dividing by zero.

 

[Jeff Relf]

Hi Bill Seurer,

Wow, comp.lang.c++ is full of nymshifting trolls ?

Who'd a thunk it ?

Bill Seurer at work : IBM.COM,
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;

... a.k.a. Red Floyd at home: de4c3138, Prodigy.COM,
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6)

So your ploink was just an insult then ...
and nothing more ?

 

[Old Wolf]

Hi Old Wolf,

You're posting via Google ? Why the anonymity ?

Your address is "(e-mail address removed)" and you call me the anonymous one?

Google is the mark of a troll where I come from.

And where is that? (Due to your anonymous posting, I can't tell)

As for the speed of NaN's vs. Hanging ...

Hanging is slower.

Hanging is not slow if it never happens.

By the way,
For a group of guys that proclaims a love of standards,
I'm amazed that no one here can point to
an authoritative link about
the default action when dividing by zero.

I'm amazed at how lazy you are. You seem to think that because nobody
can be bothered doing research on your behalf, you are automatically
right. It certainly takes less effort to search for "C++ programming"
on the ISO website (www.iso.org), than it takes you to write these posts.

I shall now take the advice of CBFalconer, and stop feeding you..