Re: fdiv() function
| From: | Niklas Keller | Date: | Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:28:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: fdiv() function | ||
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Hi Nikita,
> The fdiv() function will perform a floating-point division while treating
> division by zero as a perfectly legal operation, and will not emit any kind
> of diagnostic in that case. Instead it will return the INF/-INF/NAN result
> mandated by IEEE-754. It mirrors the existing fmod() function.
I'd prefer floatdiv() as name matching intdiv(), but wasn't aware
fmod() is already a thing. So now I think fdiv() might be the slightly
more consistent name.
Regards, Niklas