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Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?
From: |
Jim Blandy |
Subject: |
Re: IEEE floating point support for guile? |
Date: |
09 Nov 2000 17:32:25 -0500 |
Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:
> Mikael Djurfeldt <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > At any rate, it seems to me that also the case when floating-point
> > exceptions aren't generated can be useful.
>
> I've now spoken to a numerics guy. He agrees that generating
> exceptions at division by zero would be a serious limitation.
>
> He confirms my own experience that it is common that you do
> computations where parts of the result are NaN:s or infinite values.
>
> He agreed that having the option to generate numerical exceptions
> could be useful during initial debugging of the program, but thinks
> that no exceptions should be the default behaviour.
Well. So much for consensus.
Mikael, you and Chris work about ten minutes' walk from each other;
can you get together and put together an acceptable plan for this?
- IEEE floating point support for guile?, (continued)
- IEEE floating point support for guile?, Chris Hanson, 2000/11/03
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Jim Blandy, 2000/11/08
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, John W. Eaton, 2000/11/08
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Jim Blandy, 2000/11/09
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/09
- IEEE floating point support for guile?, Chris Hanson, 2000/11/09
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/09
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/09
- IEEE floating point support for guile?, Chris Hanson, 2000/11/09
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/09
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?,
Jim Blandy <=
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Mikael Djurfeldt, 2000/11/09
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Jim Blandy, 2000/11/09
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Florian Weimer, 2000/11/11
- IEEE floating point support for guile?, Chris Hanson, 2000/11/11
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Florian Weimer, 2000/11/12
- IEEE floating point support for guile?, Chris Hanson, 2000/11/08
- Re: IEEE floating point support for guile?, Gerald Jay Sussman, 2000/11/08