From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John W. Eaton" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: DINFINITY alpha not gnu/linux Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:41:55 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16433.21827.391742.744436@devzero.bogus.domain> References: <877jymwt2b.fsf@zip.com.au> <16433.18814.653327.782668@devzero.bogus.domain> <87y8r2vd2u.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076975017 23267 80.91.224.253 (16 Feb 2004 23:43:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 17 00:43:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AssOg-00062h-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:43:30 +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 1AssOA-0000fx-N1 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AssNo-0000cG-HI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:42:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AssNC-0008LX-GF for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [63.240.76.164] (helo=sccimhc02.asp.att.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AssNC-0008LL-5W for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:41:58 -0500 Original-Received: from devzero.bogus.domain (12-221-108-64.client.insightbb.com[12.221.108.64]) by sccimhc02.asp.att.net (sccimhc02) with ESMTP id <20040216234156im200had1ke>; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:41:56 +0000 Original-Received: from devzero.bogus.domain (jwe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by devzero.bogus.domain (8.12.11.Beta0/8.12.11.Beta0/Debian-1) with ESMTP id i1GNftji001866; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:41:55 -0600 Original-Received: (from jwe@localhost) by devzero.bogus.domain (8.12.11.Beta0/8.12.11.Beta0/Debian-1) id i1GNftfQ001862; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:41:55 -0600 Original-To: Kevin Ryde In-Reply-To: <87y8r2vd2u.fsf@zip.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.3.1 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3394 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3394 On 17-Feb-2004, Kevin Ryde wrote: | "John W. Eaton" 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 -- www.octave.org | www.che.wisc.edu/~jwe | Peace would shock and awe me. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel