From bug-request at octave dot org Mon Feb  7 10:54:55 2005
Subject: Re: Inconsistency in complex division by zero
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Dmitri A. Sergatskov" <dmitri at unm dot edu>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 11:59:37 -0500

On  7-Feb-2005, Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dmitri at unm dot edu> wrote:

| > slightly differently in different libraries?  In any case, it is not a
| > very satisfying solution.
| 
| The solution here is to get gcc people to fix compiler.

Yes, I agree.

BTW, when I started working with free software, I thought one of the
advantages would be that we would no longer have to work around bugs
in other software, because we could actually fix the root cause.  We
would not have to wait for Sun, DEC, IBM, or whoever, to respond to
the problems because we could just fix them ourselves.  No more code
littered with

  #ifdef BROKEN_THIS
  #elif BROKEN_THAT
  ...

(or so I had hoped).  So I would prefer to fix the root cause of the
problem rather than insert workarounds in Octave (and every other
piece of software that depends on this part of GCC being right).

jwe



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