I'm running the latest stable Debian 2.2 on Alpha XL266. (alphaev56 processor)
There appears to be a problem with the values returned by the function nextafter (see <math.h>). Namely, this value (nextafter(0.,1.) returns 4.9407e-324) is too small for doing arithmetic operations on it, that is, for instance, 2.*nextafter(0.,1.) produces a floating point exception. This is with gcc (version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) and no extra options (except -lm). The smallest possible value x that still allows for 2.*x with my setup is about 1.e-307. Is this a feature or a bug (in gcc or in glibc ?) ? Thanks in advance, Dmitrii. -- Dmitrii Pasechnik e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ssor.twi.tudelft.nl/~dima/
