# HG changeset patch
# User John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org>
# Date 1251761388 14400
# Node ID 264fb552097384f6a862ca2100763ca3e52d48b2
# Parent  b18a50c56144884e069a08d35fcc478976d554d4
abort if floating point format is not recognized as IEEE

diff -r b18a50c56144 -r 264fb5520973 liboctave/ChangeLog
--- a/liboctave/ChangeLog	Mon Aug 31 23:24:07 2009 +0200
+++ b/liboctave/ChangeLog	Mon Aug 31 19:29:48 2009 -0400
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-08-31  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
+
+	* liboctave/lo-ieee.cc (octave_ieee_init): Abort if floating point
+	format is not recognized as IEEE.
+
 2009-08-27  John W. Eaton  <jwe@octave.org>
 
 	* str-vec.cc, str-vec.h (string_vector::string_vector (const
diff -r b18a50c56144 -r 264fb5520973 liboctave/lo-ieee.cc
--- a/liboctave/lo-ieee.cc	Mon Aug 31 23:24:07 2009 +0200
+++ b/liboctave/lo-ieee.cc	Mon Aug 31 19:29:48 2009 -0400
@@ -157,13 +157,12 @@
     case oct_mach_info::flt_fmt_cray:
     case oct_mach_info::flt_fmt_vax_d:
     case oct_mach_info::flt_fmt_vax_g:
-      break;
-
     default:
       // If the format is unknown, then you will probably not have a
       // useful system, but we will just issue a warning and go on...
-      (*current_liboctave_warning_handler)
-	("lo_ieee_init: unrecognized floating point format!");
+      (*current_liboctave_error_handler)
+	("lo_ieee_init: floating point format is not IEEE!  Maybe DLAMCH is miscompiled, or you are using some strange system without IEEE floating point math?");
+      abort ();
     }
 }