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Re: obnoxious "not implemented" messages
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: obnoxious "not implemented" messages
- From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 22:23:32 -0700
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
- References: <199807281645.MAA09345@rabi.phys.columbia.edu> <r2ww8xj3o2.fsf@happy.cygnus.com>
- Reply-To: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:17:33AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> In this cae it's better to have a crashing program than one which does
> not test for plausible results.
Why don't we return SNaN instead? I personally hate libraries that
print stuff. Especially when there's no way to turn it off.
r~