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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1051 by removing dead code
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Peter Bex |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1051 by removing dead code |
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Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:52:13 +0200 |
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On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 04:46:14PM -0400, John Cowan wrote:
> Peter Bex scripsit:
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> > 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).
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> 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.
Care to provide a patch for that?
Cheers,
Peter
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