Greetings! Looking at the ansi tests which point out GCL's current failure to signal a floating point overflow error on certain arithmetic operations. We've separately discussed the possible utility in pushing inf and nan forward to the user, which is a good idea I feel regardless of signaling behavior. If memory serves, one can instruct gcc to compile code which sends the process a signal on such floating point exceptions, though I don't know how portable this is. Short of that, manually checking for inf and nan in all arithmetic functions appears quite cumbersome, though we may be able to boil it down to a few primitives. Just thought I'd solicit ideas on the best behavior during overflow from those expressing related interests in the past.
Take care, -- Camm Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
