[ARROW-3991] [gandiva] floating point division shouldn't cause errors

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Invalid
• Component/s: C++ - Gandiva
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/20594
• Assignee: Pindikura Ravindra
• Reporter: Pindikura Ravindra
• Created: 10/Dec/18 18:35
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:31
• Resolved: 13/Dec/18 10:20

Description

for division, gandiva explicitly checks if the divisor is zero and raises an error.

This is correct for integer division. For float point divisions, it should just return infinity.

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Infinity-and-NaN.html#Infinity-and-NaN

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3150