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<title>sane-devel: Re: New HP backend</title>
<h1>Re: New HP backend</h1>
<b>David Mosberger-Tang</b> (<a href="mailto:David.Mosberger@acm.org"><i>David.Mosberger@acm.org</i></a>)<br>
<i>Sat, 28 Mar 1998 10:36:06 -0800</i>
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<i>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 16:38:18 +0100 (MET), Hugo van der Kooij &lt;<a href="mailto:hvdkooij@caiw.nl">hvdkooij@caiw.nl</a>&gt; said:</i><br>
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Hugo&gt; I did not test gama stuff as that bails out as well but for a<br>
Hugo&gt; different reason (floating point exception). Which is not a<br>
Hugo&gt; SANE issue I think.<br>
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On an Alpha, this typically happens because of non-finite arithmetic<br>
(division by zero, operations on NaNs, etc.). This may be either<br>
because a floating variable did not get initialized before used or<br>
because the code really attempts to make use of non-finite arithmetic.<br>
The latter should be avoided in SANE software because, for<br>
portabilities sake, it should not assume support for IEEE non-finite<br>
arithmetic.<br>
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Hope this helps in tracking down the problem,<br>
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--david<br>
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