#4381: scaleFloat does not handle overflow correctly.
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Reporter: draconx | Owner: simonmar
Type: bug | Status: merge
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.1
Component: libraries/base | Version: 6.12.3
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Incorrect result at runtime
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Changes (by simonmar):
* status: patch => merge
* milestone: => 7.0.1
Comment:
Applied, thanks:
{{{
Wed Oct 13 11:18:49 BST 2010 Simon Marlow <[email protected]>
* FIX #4381
Fix scaleFloat by clamping the scaling parameter so that
exponent + scale doesn't overflow.
Patch by: Daniel Fischer <[email protected]>
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4381#comment:7>
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