Re: [xml] xpath.c division by zero

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:04:52PM -0800, Eric and Jennifer Johnson wrote:
> I just downloaded and build libxml 2.3.5, but I am getting an error when I
> run the sample program (gjobread).  I traced the problem to the xmlXPathInit
> function (below).  This function does division by zero three times.  What
> should it be doing?

  Exactly that. Those are needed to:
    - check that the environment don't barf (divide by zero
      on double precision IEEE floating point have a precise
      semantic)
    - initialize the values needed for the XPath computations.
If it breaks on your platform, well you can disable XPath or
send patches which fixes the problem for your OS/Compiler, but
verify first that the XPath regression tests still work

Daniel

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