Re: netbsd build update

[Jason Stover]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:50:26PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm not sure exactly what these functions do, but are you advocating
> > we should ignore floating point errors?   It's ok to turn off FPE's if
> > we can ensure that the result of a floating point error will be NaN,
> > but if not, then I would rather have PSPP crash, than to carry on and
> > give erroneous output.
> 
> Yes, the result should be a NaN, and PSPP should present that to
> the user as a "system-missing" value.  In my opinion, at least.
> 
> That is the effect of disabling exceptions, or it should be.

Using the -mieee did cause PSPP to produce a NaN in the output.

-Jason