From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.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 19:26:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1i2kr6-0000oS-Je@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97F7BA56-6E8C-45BA-878C-55DD91D4C3AB@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Tue, 27 Aug 2019 12:39:23 +0200)
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> 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.
I agree, but I am arguing for a stronger conclusion. Handling
infinite floats is a feature of Emacs, so if they don't work, that is
a bug. Compiling Emacs with -ffinite-math-only causes this bug,
so we cannot support that mode of compilation.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-27 23:26 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
2019-08-27 23:26 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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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