Bug ... in Erlang

[Miguel Barreiro Paz]

> You mean
>
>   Eshell V5.2.3.6  (abort with ^G)
>   1> 1.0e309.
>   ** 1: illegal float **

Solaris 8 on SPARC, OTP compiled 'by hand':
Eshell V5.1.1  (abort with ^G)
1> 1.0e309.
** 1: illegal float **

Debian GNU/Linux on x86 "sid"  (testing/unstable), OTP installed from the
Debian package:

Eshell V5.2.3.3  (abort with ^G)
1>  1.0e309.
(hangs forever, eating a bit of CPU, memory not growing)