From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: DINFINITY alpha not gnu/linux
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:41:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16433.21827.391742.744436@devzero.bogus.domain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y8r2vd2u.fsf@zip.com.au>
On 17-Feb-2004, Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> wrote:
| "John W. Eaton" <jwe@bevo.che.wisc.edu> writes:
| >
| > #if defined (SCO)
| > volatile double tmp = 1.0;
| > tmp_inf = 1.0 / (tmp - tmp);
|
| This is not really sco specific is it?
No. I think it was added a long time ago to work around some problem
on SCO systems and never removed. I'd guess it doesn't matter now.
| I'd guess anywhere with a
| working "volatile" and overflow exceptions masked would be ok.
Yes.
| > to define Inf, but there may be better ways to do this.
|
| C99 INFINITY is probably good, when available.
OK.
Thanks,
jwe
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-16 22:36 DINFINITY alpha not gnu/linux Kevin Ryde
2004-02-16 22:51 ` John W. Eaton
2004-02-16 23:06 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-16 23:41 ` John W. Eaton [this message]
2004-02-21 22:08 ` Kevin Ryde
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