July 8, 2009
11:20 a.m.
Well, that's going to be an issue because the parts of the code will see different VM behavior. Of course, however, the parts of the application can change the VM's behavior on the fly to do as they like. In general, however, I'd expect that kind of stuff to be rather problematic. What would you do? Nicolas Cellier wrote:
2009/7/8 Andres Valloud <avalloud@smalltalk.comcastbiz.net>:
FWIW... VW has two choices... a) fail the primitives when the answer is INF or NaN, or b) return whatever the FPU says. Also, NaN and INF are regular instances of Float and Double...
What if some part of the code rely on signalling an Exception , and another part rely on answering exceptional values?
Nicolas