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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: floating point constants
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Date: 26 Jul 89 20:29:05 GMT
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In article <1925@arisia.Xerox.COM> leisner@arisia.Xerox.COM (Marty Leisner) writes:
>Is this a valid C program?  gcc 1.35 handles it fine on a sun386i --
>main()
>{
>        printf("%f\n", 1.0/0.0);
>        printf("%f\n", -1.0/0.0);
>        printf("%f\n", 0.0/0.0);
>}

Why on earth would anyone want to compile that :-)?
I think it's quite legal C, but it's total giberish, since if the compiler
compiled it, it would simply result in a divide by zero, which any normal
maching would have a fit over.

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