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From: matthew_heaney@acm.org (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Renaming Fixed Point Mutiplicative operator in Ada 95
Date: 1998/05/21
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In article <3564A1ED.3DAC@gecm.com>, Simon Pilgrim <simon.pilgrim@gecm.com>
wrote:

(start of quote)
It is not sufficient to just check for equality to zero with fixed point
types.  If z is small enough then a divide by zero exception will still
be generated by some targets (Intel 486 & Motorola 68k for example).
(end of quote)

Are you taking about a floating point divide or a fixed point divide?  They
are very different!

I'm confused by your answer, because a fixed point divide returns universal
fixed. How does one get a divide by zero exception, since 1) we've proven z
is in fact not zero, and 2) the universal fixed result has infinate range?

If you consider that the smallest non-zero value, T'Small, is represented
internally by the value 1, then how does a divide by zero exception occur?