gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>) (07/06/84)
There is a bug in the hypot(3M) routine in UNIX System V Release 1.0, in that arguments of (0.0, 0.0) cause a divide-by-zero error. I do not know whether this has been fixed in later releases. The following editing transcript shows how to fix the bug: ed - hypot.c 1 /* @(#)hypot.c 1.6 */ /\/=/i if ( b == 0.0 ) /* DAG -- bug fix */ return 0.0; /* DAG */ . w q
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (07/10/84)
Interesting. Dunno about later releases, but it was fixed in earlier
ones (V7, no less!).
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