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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Emit C99 constants for +nan.0 and [+-]inf.
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Evan Hanson |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Emit C99 constants for +nan.0 and [+-]inf.0 `##core#float' nodes |
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Fri, 28 Jun 2019 14:26:40 +1200 |
On 2019-06-27 21:27, John Cowan wrote:
> No, you do. If a Schemer writes (/ 1.0 -0.0) the result must be
> -inf.0, not +inf.0.
OK, but I think that's a separate issue, because currently if a CHICKEN
user writes (/ 1.0 -0.0) they get +inf.0. And -0.0 gets them 0.0.
It sounds like this might be worth a bug report (would you be so kind?).
But, for the purposes of this patch, there is no negative zero.
Cheers,
Evan