Re: [boost] BigInt divide-by-zero handling

From: Sohail Somani (s.somani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-05-16 19:34:49

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> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
> [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Ray
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 3:11 PM
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> Subject: [boost] BigInt divide-by-zero handling
> 
> I'm planning to finish the BigInt library for SoC.   I'm looking for
> some input about whether divide-by-zero should throw an exception, or
> just store a NaN and propagate that through any subsequent operations.
>   Since ordinary ints just throw an exception, and my goal is to make
> BigInts have virtually the same interface as ints but never 
> overflow, it seems
> reasonable to throw an exception.   Any objections?

Isn't it a hardware exception here? I don't think it's a C++ exception.