Greetings! I could probably implement 'Inf' an 'NaN' as the print forms of these float pretty trivially -- the question is whether the reader must be modified to read them in, and what are the compliance issues if any.
Take care, Robert Dodier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > I am using GCL 2.6.6 on linux. I find that GCL > apparently can compute IEEE 754 special values, > but then it complains when the number is to be printed > on the console. > > E.g. (* 1e300 1e300) succeeds, so far as I can tell, > and yields IEEE 754 infinity. However, then there is > an error message about printing the result. > > What needs to be modified in GCL in order to make > floating point inf and nan (not a number) printable? > > Thanks for any insights. > > Robert Dodier > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Gcl-devel mailing list > Gcl-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel > > > -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
