[PATCH] Replace deliberate division by zero with raise(SIGFPE).

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Fri Jul 27 10:13:50 CEST 2012


On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 01:13, xi.wang at gmail.com said:

> Yeah I can make a separate function to handle the case.

This needs also to be integrated with the FIPS code.

> JOOC, why still a division by zero in addition to raise?

Because that is what it is about.  We are merely computing with a higher
precision and thus we should behave similar to what operations on native
data sizes do.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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