"D Goel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i think that both should return the proper values instead of > truncated integers
i agree. how does the following patch look? thi ___________________________________ *** floatfns.c 4 Jul 2005 16:06:31 -0000 1.84 --- floatfns.c 6 Aug 2005 14:07:36 -0000 *************** *** 460,466 **** CHECK_NUMBER_OR_FLOAT (arg1); CHECK_NUMBER_OR_FLOAT (arg2); if (INTEGERP (arg1) /* common lisp spec */ ! && INTEGERP (arg2)) /* don't promote, if both are ints */ { /* this can be improved by pre-calculating */ EMACS_INT acc, x, y; /* some binary powers of x then accumulating */ Lisp_Object val; --- 460,467 ---- CHECK_NUMBER_OR_FLOAT (arg1); CHECK_NUMBER_OR_FLOAT (arg2); if (INTEGERP (arg1) /* common lisp spec */ ! && INTEGERP (arg2) /* don't promote, if both are ints, */ ! && 0 <= XINT (arg2)) /* or if we are taking the ARG2'th root */ { /* this can be improved by pre-calculating */ EMACS_INT acc, x, y; /* some binary powers of x then accumulating */ Lisp_Object val; _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel