[XML-SIG] Re: Floating exception on alpha machine

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Martin v. L=F6wis]

> Jens Jorgen Mortensen <jensj@fysik.dtu.dk> writes:
>
> > >>> Inf =3D Inf =3D 1e300 * 1e300
> > Floating exception (core dumped)
> >
> > A very simple way to crash the python interpreter!!
>
> The code is fine; the interpreter should not crash. Please report a
> bug as sf.net/projects/python. The interpreter should not crash. At
> worst, it should raise a Python exception.
>
> > Does anybody know what to a do about it?  How should Inf be defin=
ed?
>

I only know that it does not crash on Python 2.2.1 on Windows 2000.

Cheers,

Tom P