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From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 37140@debbugs.gnu.org, huszaghmatt@gmail.com, npostavs@gmail.com
Subject: bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:39:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97F7BA56-6E8C-45BA-878C-55DD91D4C3AB@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1i1f3N-0006ms-Qg@fencepost.gnu.org>

25 aug. 2019 kl. 01.02 skrev Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> 
> If Emacs is supposed to handle infinite floats, then compiling with
> -ffinite-math-only is inescapably bad because it will make the
> infinite floats fail to work.

I have no strong opinion on how best to detect broken infinity handling, but will just note that ±Inf are useful even in integer-only code as identities for `min' and `max' and similar code --- in fact, more so now that there is no longer a greatest integer.






  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-27 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-22  4:40 bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations Matt Huszagh
2019-08-22 13:08 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-22 19:07   ` Matt Huszagh
2019-08-23  7:02     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-23 17:33       ` Matt Huszagh
2019-08-23 18:11         ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-23 19:47           ` Glenn Morris
2019-08-23 20:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 12:08 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-24 12:34   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 12:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-24 18:38       ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-24 23:02         ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-27 10:39           ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2019-08-27 23:26             ` Richard Stallman
2019-08-28  9:00               ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-29 10:32                 ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-29 10:36                   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-08-29 10:50                     ` Mattias Engdegård
2019-08-29 12:36                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-29 12:39                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-30 13:13                       ` Mattias Engdegård

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