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Re: [Chicken-users] expt incorrect in boundary cases
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] expt incorrect in boundary cases |
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Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:43:38 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Matthew Flatt scripsit:
> For what it's worth,
>
> http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt/trunk/src/mzscheme/sconfig.h
>
> contains a number of platform-specific, FP-related declarations that
> reflect how well different libms work in our experience. For example,
> POW_HANDLES_INF_CORRECTLY is declared for NetBSD, but not for Linux.
Thanks. However, what counts as "correctly"? ISO C and the SUS
say one thing, IEEE 754 says another. I assume that for
Scheme (as for Java and JavaScript), IEEE should win.
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