[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Disable denormalized flonum tests

[Peter Bex]

Hi all,

After some more investigation, I found that #1062 would probably occur
on some other platforms besides Windows.  For example, here's a thread
that indicates that iOS on ARM by default enables a hardware setting
that treats denormalized numbers as zero:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7346521/subnormal-ieee-754-floating-point-numbers-support-on-ios-arm-devices-iphone-4

I think we shouldn't want to try and fix every broken OS out there,
so maybe it's safer and better to just disable the test.  If you're
calculating with denormalized numbers, chances are you will run into
trouble soon anyway.

If anyone objects, please do so with a *constructive* way to fix this,
I'm sick and tired of theoretical and impossible-to-implement
"suggestions".  If correct numerical behaviour is important, one can
always use the numbers egg.

Cheers,
Peter
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http://www.more-magic.net

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