Re: I want NaN and Inf to crash program. Is this possible?

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From: Brooke Paul Anderson
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:56

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The problem is that, if your program has generated a NaN or an Inf,
something is definitely wrong, and the calculation needs to be halted.
To me, having to sprinkle tests all over to check for these conditions
is just as inconvenient and annoying as trying to catch bad pointers
in an OS that doesn't have protected memory (like in DOS, where pointers
can stomp all over the OS until the whole machine locks up).

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Subject: Re: I want NaN and Inf to crash program.  Is this possible?
Date: 23 Nov 1992 09:56:39 GMT
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