Re: [Chicken-users] expt incorrect in boundary cases

[John Cowan]

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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