At 2:16 PM -0700 8/9/01, Brad Hughes wrote:
>Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>[...]
>> ____________________________________________________________________________
>> [ 11613] By: jhi on 2001/08/08 13:22:13
>> Log: Make VMS use IEEE math by default;
>
>This is a major change; is it because of the bigintpm.t test failing?
Basically, yes. They want underflows and overflows to return funny special
numbers rather than causing exceptions. I've told him IEEE is not
available on VAX. There is also the issue of binary data
compatibility, but I think we're already inconsistent here because
D_FLOAT is the default on VAX and G_FLOAT on Alpha.
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