Most, if not all, compilers warn about this. Perhaps a typo?

[bmcgough]

https://github.com/bayesiancook/pbmpi/blob/e4ea1cae0026d2076bf3ec9cd4f09cf257015882/sources/GammaBranchProcess.cpp#L95

[bayesiancook]

thanks for the comment — no, not a typo: this is intended to return a log prob = - infinity (given the way the metropolis acceptance rule is implemented, this will indeed be accepted with probability 0)

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[bmcgough]

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[Future readers who may be confused as I was... floating point variables divided by 0 can produce negative or positive infinity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_real_number_line]