Re: Thoughts about a floating point exception fix

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 04:50:58AM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> I've been thinking about issues with floating point exceptions on VAXen.
> Currently it's difficult to compile packages such as python which have tons
> of floating point tests because so many of them fail because of infinities
> or NaNs. awk is still problematic when used in pkgsrc because of FP
> exceptions.

Can you explain a bit more details? Only changes I ever had to make were
the slighly different limits, most other things just work fine and relying
on NaN propagation in 3rd party software seems to be rare.

The vax is indeed exception happy, but often this is triggered by bogus
compiler output (like bit shift/mask operations out of range).

Martin