From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sqrt with negative arg. Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:42:16 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200401011642.i01GgGZ00989@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <200312312136.hBVLaVd00009@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072982920 27991 80.91.224.253 (1 Jan 2004 18:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 18:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 01 19:48:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ac7s4-00075T-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 19:48:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ac7s4-0006xV-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 19:48:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ac8mw-0003Gx-La for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ac8mY-0003Fu-GP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:46:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Ac6uX-00069l-Eu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:47:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ac6r8-0005SK-94; Thu, 01 Jan 2004 12:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i01GgYKk009839; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:42:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id i01GgGZ00989; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 10:42:16 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 01 Jan 2004 11:30:11 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18940 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18940 Richard Stallman wrote: A few hours ago, the documentation of sqrt in numbers.texi was changed from saying that it returns a NaN to saying that it signals a domain-error. It definitely returns a NaN on my machine. I think that is a bug--why does it not signal an error? As Eli pointed out, it is probably due to my glibc version. So I will definitely _not_ install the change to numbers.texi which I proposed. Sincerely, Luc.