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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Disable denormalized flonum tests
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Mario Domenech Goulart |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Disable denormalized flonum tests |
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Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:09:56 +0000 |
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Hi Peter,
On Sat, 8 Feb 2014 13:55:20 +0100 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
Testing CHICKEN on Windows is less annoying now. Pushed. Thanks.
Best wishes.
Mario
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