David Cournapeau wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote: > >> I'm getting the following from r7603 on Solaris Sparc -- somehow related >> to not having a long double version of next after available. I realise >> not everyone has access to (or is dependent on) this platform, so I'm >> willing to help in whatever way I can, I'm just not sure I understand >> the change yet. >> > > The only way to implement nextafter that I know of requires to know > the exact representation of the floating point number, and long double > is unfortunately platform dependent. > > What is the long double format on solaris sparc ? (big endian I > suppose, but how many bits for the mantissa and exponent ? Does it > follow IEER754 ?) > I honestly don't know -- I've never had to use them. It would be great to solve this properly but it's difficult to find definitive information about these things.
Assuming we can't solve this the "right" way before the next release, would it be possible for this to raise a runtime "NotImplemented" error (by not defining the LONGDOUBLE_nextafter ufunc) rather than raising a compiler error which prevents the build from completing? Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
