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Re: Dividing by zero does NOT generate exception

From: Ilija Kocho <ilijak at siva dot com dot mk>
To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 14:51:54 +0100
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Dividing by zero does NOT generate exception
References: <AANLkTikZpncUQJYoGOmzXY=WvOuaYavi7cJmKFrXniRp@mail.gmail.com>

On 04.03.2011 23:14, Quanren Xiong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using  ECOS 2.0.33.  To my suprise, the following code does NOT
> generate an exception.
>
> "int b=1; int c=b/0;" The value in variable c will be 0.
Maybe the optimizer removes the code. Of course the question is why
compiler does bot complain for div by 0?
Is variable c referenced somewhere by the code?
Hint: Try to declare c  (and b) volatile.

Hope this helps.

// Ilija


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