Not crash into a flaming ball of (very vague) fire?

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 2:17 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>
wrote:

> On Mon May  2 12:07:58 PDT 2016, cinap_len...@felloff.net wrote:
> >
> > > file under: awk was really designed for pre-posix unix.  :-)
> >
> > its not just about awk. whenever you want to convert a string to
> > a floating point number under plan9 you'll have to deal with this
> > problem:
> >
> > cpu% seq nan
> > seq 11791387: suicide: sys: fp: invalid operation fppc=0x2635
> status=0x8081 pc=0x0000122f
>
> that seems reasonable to me.  what could seq possibly do with nan?
>
> - erik
>
>


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