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From: Markus Schoepflin <nospam@no.spam>
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Subject: Re: Forcing exceptions on NANs with GNAT?
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:33:27 +0100
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Markus Schoepflin wrote:

> is it possible to influence the behaviour of GNAT regarding the handling 
> of NANs? (Most importantly in the special case of division by zero.)

[...]

Thanks all for the answers.

The suggestion from Dmitry (create a subtype with the same range as float) 
works fine for my purposes, GNAT then raises range check errors for both 
division by zero and overflows.

Markus