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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: integer divided by zero
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:01:54 +0100
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On 28/04/2025 11:49, Bonita Montero wrote:
> Am 28.04.2025 um 09:54 schrieb Richard Heathfield:
> 
>> Tell it to the marines, because the sailors won't believe you.
>> <https://web.archive.org/web/20221230163646/https:// 
>> www.wired.com/1998/07/sunk-by-windows-nt/>
> 
> Then they didn't catch the divide by zero.

You wrote: "The platform with the most comfortable handling of 
division by zeroes is Windows."

The report tells us: "The data contained a zero where it 
shouldn't have, and when the software attempted to divide by 
zero, a buffer overrun occurred -- crashing the entire network 
and causing the ship to lose control of its propulsion system."

A platform that crashes the network is not "handling" division by 
zero; it's /mis/handling division by zero. Unix would have 
core-dumped the program and left everything else up and running, 
including the Yorktown.

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Richard Heathfield
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