On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:46:15PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> In configure.com, the new IEEE default was a bit ahead of the configuration
> question for Alpha. In numeric.c, catching potential overflow has been
> simplified and better commented. I don't know of any reason the compiler
> version would be relevant, so I've removed that from the ifdef. The maximum
> exponent for single precision would be correct for the D_FLOAT double
> format, but not for G_FLOAT; I've replaced it with NV_MAX_10_EXP, which will
> reference DBL_MAX_10_EXP, which will be defined appropriately regardless of
> format in float.h. The numeric tests have no complaints after this with a
> non-IEEE build on Alpha.
Thanks, applied.
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