[fpc-devel] [patch] complex number division overflow

[Dimitrios Apostolou]

Hello list, 

the last time I mentioned this bug (or misbehavior maybe?) I didn't get any 
feedback. Anyway, I hope I get some feedback now on this patch, which 
unfortunately makes complex number division more complex (;-) but fixes 
mistaken results in case of denominator overflow. Any ideas for optimizing 
this algorithm are welcome. 

You may reproduce with: 

	writeLn(cstr((-8E+231 - 1E+230*i) / (-1E+144 + 4E+199*i)));

without the patch it returns: 
-0.000000000000000E+000

but with the patch: 
-2.500000000000000E+030+2.000000000000000E+032i


Dimitris
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