0.0 / 0.0 = -NAN ?

When exception masks are all enabled to stop the processor from throwing floating point exceptions the following calculation produces a somewhat strange result:

0.0 / 0.0 = -nan 

(At least in Delphi).

For now I will assume this is the case in C/C++ as well and with that I mean on x86/x64 which should and seems to be following IEEE 754 floating-point format.

I am a little bit surprised by this and I want/need to know more. Where is this defined that 0.0 / 0.0 should be -NAN ?!?

Problem is with the code, example:

T := 0;
D := 0.0 / 0.0;
P := T * D;

This screws up P. instead of P being zero, P is now also -NAN ?!?

I find this very strange but ok.

I guess a simple solution could be to set D to 0 explicitly for this case, is there perhaps another solution ? Maybe some kind of mask or rounding mode so that additional branch is not necessary ???

Bye for now,
  Skybuck.