24 Dec
2012
24 Dec
'12
12:49 p.m.
On 23/12/12 04:46, Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
That would be incorrect, by all standards. Indeed, Solaris uses divide by zero as a fatal error indicator during the boot process, knowing it will trap.
Hi Tarl,
Incidentally when this discussion came up before, I remember there was some discussion on how this was handled in Sun's implementation, but I can't remember what the outcome was.
What is the result of typing "2 0 /" into the OpenBoot Forth interpreter? Does it call invoke a low level trap handler, throw a Forth exception, or is the zero denominator detected in some other fashion?
ATB,
Mark.