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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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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-16 23:41 UTC|newest]

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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