Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1051 by removing dead code

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> The part which isn't reached is supposed enlarge extremely small
> "denormalised" floating-point numbers so that they will fall within
> the representable range again (are normalised).  

I don't understand this.  The numerator and denominator of a denormalized
number should be (and according to the numbers egg, is) 1.0 (appropriately
signed) and +inf.0 respectively.  The current code just barfs when it
gets a denormalized number, so an explicit test for them and returning
the above canned values is the Right Thing.

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