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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1051 by removing dead code
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix #1051 by removing dead code |
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Sun, 22 Sep 2013 18:12:48 -0400 |
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Peter Bex scripsit:
> Care to provide a patch for that?
I don't really know enough about Chicken's C conventions to do so, but I
bet you do. A denormalized number can be recognized because its
exponent bits are zero, but its fraction bits are non-zero (otherwise
it would be +/-0.0).
--
John Cowan address@hidden http://ccil.org/~cowan
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."