"Craig A. Berry" wrote:
>
> 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.
I don't agree with defaulting to a rarely used floating poijnt format
to accommodate a rarely used module. Shouldn't we revert to VAX floats
by default, code around the tests for VMS, and await your fixes for the
Math:: modules? ;-)
Brad
