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From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: rms@gnu.org,  ulm@gentoo.org,  eliz@gnu.org,  contovob@tcd.ie,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:32:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sf9n6ze2.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de9304c0-e976-74fa-afe5-5cafa2b921ef@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sat, 15 Jul 2023 08:22:20 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> Yes, though there are similar problems even for finite numbers, since
> they also behave differently on the VAX, sometimes
> significantly. E.g., VAX subtraction can underflow to zero via
> catastrophic cancellation, whereas IEEE subtraction cannot.

Subnormal numbers (or rather, the lack thereof) shouldn't pose a
portability problem for practical Lisp code, as they don't affect reader
syntax or cause errors to be signaled.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-17  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-23 11:46 Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8? Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-23 15:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-23 16:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 18:24     ` Paul Eggert
2020-08-23 18:53       ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-23 18:56         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 18:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 19:13           ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-23 19:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-23 21:23               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-24  7:06                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-24 14:30                   ` Yuri Khan
2020-08-29 11:17                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-24 14:36                   ` Drew Adams
2020-08-24 15:23                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2020-08-24 16:43                       ` Stefan Monnier
2023-07-05 10:08                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-05 11:41                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-05 13:04                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-05 13:44                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-05 21:50                               ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-05 22:11                                 ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-06  8:51                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06  5:33                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06  8:47                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06  9:20                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06  9:46                                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06 12:34                                         ` Po Lu
2023-07-06 12:32                                     ` Po Lu
2023-07-06 12:31                                 ` Po Lu
2023-07-06 13:02                                   ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-06 13:08                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-06 17:37                                     ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-06 18:13                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06 18:44                                       ` Ulrich Müller
2023-07-06 19:01                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06 19:31                                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07  5:18                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07  5:48                                               ` Ulrich Müller
2023-07-07  6:16                                                 ` Po Lu
2023-07-07  6:41                                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07  7:38                                                     ` Po Lu
2023-07-07  9:44                                                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 10:21                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07 10:42                                                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 12:04                                                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 13:01                                                               ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 13:38                                                                 ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 12:01                                                         ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 12:38                                                           ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-07 13:37                                                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-07 13:45                                                               ` Andreas Schwab
2023-07-07 12:58                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08  8:49                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08 15:27                                                   ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-08 15:38                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08 16:21                                                       ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-08 16:33                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-08 16:57                                                           ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-08 18:21                                                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-08 21:31                                                           ` Basil Contovounesios
2023-07-09  9:22                                                       ` Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap (was: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?) Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-09  9:57                                                         ` Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap Po Lu
2023-07-13  2:04                                                           ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-13  4:27                                                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-13 22:07                                                               ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-14  5:05                                                                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-14  6:57                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-15  2:10                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-15  2:38                                                                   ` Po Lu
2023-07-15  5:18                                                                     ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-07-15  5:50                                                                       ` Po Lu
2023-07-15 15:22                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-17  2:22                                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-17  5:26                                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2023-07-17  2:32                                                                     ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-07-16  2:19                                                               ` Richard Stallman
2023-07-09 11:35                                                         ` Lisp reader syntax and bootstrap (was: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?) Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07  0:19                                     ` Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8? Po Lu
2023-07-06 12:27                             ` Po Lu
2023-07-07  7:09                               ` UTF-32 (was: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?) Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07  7:34                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07  8:20                                   ` UTF-32 Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 10:16                                     ` UTF-32 Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07 10:34                                       ` UTF-32 Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 12:49                                         ` UTF-32 Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-07 13:24                                           ` UTF-32 Andreas Schwab
2023-07-07 13:36                                           ` UTF-32 Ulrich Mueller
2023-07-07 14:06                                             ` UTF-32 Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-05 12:49                         ` Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8? Stefan Monnier
2023-07-05 13:38                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-06 19:07                           ` Filipp Gunbin
2020-08-23 19:47             ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-24 18:35     ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-24 18:55       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 18:59         ` Juri Linkov
2020-08-25 19:26           ` Eli Zaretskii

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