Re: C2124 is most disrespectful of IEEE floating point arithmetic

This is a compile-time constant expression, and is evaluated on compilation
time.

"Dr Pizza" <DrPizza@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Since VC++ purports to follow IEC 559, and IEC 559 defines the division
of a non-zero by a zero to be a signed infinity, isn't it rather silly
that:

float inf(1.0f / 0.0f);

should result in a compile-time error, C2124? An error may be
appropriate for integer arithmetic (as it'll generate a runtime SEH
exception), but for floating point arithmetic it's surely incorrect
behaviour?

What gives? Am I being unreasonable in my expectations? It's
certainly rather nicer to type the above than have to spew:

float inf(std::numeric_limits<float>::infinity());

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