Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] lib/math/rational.c: Fix divide by zero

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed May 26 2021 - 04:06:44 EST


On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 11:04:30AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 04:35:18PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:
> > If the input is out of the range of the allowed values, either larger
> > than the largest value or closer to zero than the smallest non-zero
> > allowed value, then a division by zero would occur.
> >
> > In the case of input too large, the division by zero will occur on the
> > first iteration. The best result (largest allowed value) will be found
> > by always choosing the semi-convergent and excluding the denominator
> > based limit when finding it.
> >
> > In the case of the input too small, the division by zero will occur on
> > the second iteration. The numerator based semi-convergent should not be
> > calculated to avoid the division by zero. But the semi-convergent vs
> > previous convergent test is still needed, which effectively chooses
> > between 0 (the previous convergent) vs the smallest allowed fraction
> > (best semi-convergent) as the result.
>
> What has been changed that you haven't applied my Rb tag?

Note, the `b4` tool can easily collect them for you from previous thread.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko