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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
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Subject: Re: Possible HC 2.0v2 bugs (DIV)
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.143058.15439@sics.se>
Date: 13 Feb 91 14:30:58 GMT
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In <1991Feb13.041056.25560@midway.uchicago.edu> tisu@quads.uchicago.edu
(seth alan tisue) writes:


>Here's two quick ways to crash the system with error #04 (whatever that is).

  HC should intercept any divison by zero and return "INF" (see HC Script
Language Guide p. 102). I get the same result: SysError #4 (i.e. dsZeroDivErr:
zero divide error). I get the same result if I put the call into a script.

  But I'm not using the *final* 2.0v2 (i.e. no d's or b's), are you?