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From: Jerry <lanceboyle@qwest.net>
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Subject: Re: Forcing exceptions on NANs with GNAT?
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:01:07 -0800 (PST)
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On Nov 20, 4:09=A0am, Markus Schoepflin <nos...@no.spam> wrote:
> Platform: Linux
> Compiler: GCC/GNAT 3.4.3
>
> Hello,
>
> is it possible to influence the behaviour of GNAT regarding the handling =
of
> NANs? (Most importantly in the special case of division by zero.)
>
> We need to get exceptions whenever a NAN is generated, is this possible
> somehow? (For example by setting Machine_Overflow to True and recompiling
> the compiler itself.)
>
> Regards,
> Markus

There was a discussion about NaNs a while back. Not sure how much of
it is useful to you, but here's the link:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/772ddcb41=
cd06d5b/746f9f7e98a8d2f9?hl=3Den#746f9f7e98a8d2f9

Jerry