From bug-request at octave dot org Mon Feb  7 10:16:27 2005
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in complex division by zero
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: David dot Bateman at motorola dot com
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:21:06 -0500

On  7-Feb-2005, David Bateman <David dot Bateman at motorola dot com> wrote:

| As the /0 case only occurs in "div" function in op-{cs,cm}-s.cc and in 
| the "ldiv" function in op-s-{cs,cm}.cc perhaps just a special case there 
| is sufficient.

But then the fix only shows up for interpreted code and we would see
different results for the same operation when performed in Octave,
C/C++, or Fortran (used in a .oct file, for example).  But maybe this
is no different than some other operations which could be implemented
slightly differently in different libraries?  In any case, it is not a
very satisfying solution.

jwe



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