"Andrew Pinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe one of the MIPS maintainers can explain why this option exists > in the first place. > As far as I can tell this has option has existed before the egcs/gcc > split. I still say the back-end should not worry about this and > divide by zero should always be declared as undefined.
The GNU compiler acts as it does because that is how the old MIPS and SGI compilers acted. Ian