[ARROW-9811] [C++] Unchecked floating point division by 0 should succeed

• Type: Wish
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: pull-request-available
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/25854
• Assignee: Liya Fan
• Reporter: Antoine Pitrou
• Created: 20/Aug/20 11:39
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:09
• Resolved: 27/Aug/20 11:48

Description

Currently we return a "division by zero" error even for unchecked floating point division. Instead we should simply succeed and store an infinite (or NaN if 0/0 is requested).

Issue Links

• is related to: ARROW-9388 [C++] Division kernels
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8036