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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: test-math.c:89:3: runtime error: division by zero
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:21:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8m=1O-ak00v7QewcHus+qHoqjp2RPN5gHxdRiNjOb_=NQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1665625.n3MASsG4Sn@omega>

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:59 PM Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> wrote:
>
> Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > Let's see what the GCC folks recommend: "GCC and division by 0 under
> > sanitizers", https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-help/2020-March/138746.html.
>
> The way I interpret their answer
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-help/2020-March/138747.html
> is:
> 1) You need to distinguish integer division by zero and floating-point
>    division by zero.
> 2) For floating-point division by zero GCC warns but should not warn.
>    You should enter a bug report about this.
> 3) The undefined-behaviour sanitizer should report integer division by zero
>    but not floating-point division by zero ("as it can be a legitimate way
>    of obtaining infinities and NaNs").
>
> In the gnulib code, test-math.c:89, we clearly have a floating-point
> division by zero.

Yeah, GCC looks partially clean. It is not producing a sanitizer
finding, so I guess no blood, no foul.

Clang is a problem: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45352.

Jeff


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-29 23:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-29 13:32 test-math.c:89:3: runtime error: division by zero Jeffrey Walton
2020-03-29 16:24 ` Bruno Haible
2020-03-29 21:09   ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-03-29 21:59     ` Bruno Haible
2020-03-29 23:21       ` Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2020-03-29 23:30         ` Jeffrey Walton
2020-03-29 23:35           ` Paul Eggert

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