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Re: [Gcl-devel] printing IEEE 754 special values (inf, nan)
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Camm Maguire |
Subject: |
Re: [Gcl-devel] printing IEEE 754 special values (inf, nan) |
Date: |
29 Jun 2005 18:16:36 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Greetings! I could probably implement 'Inf' an 'NaN' as the print
forms of these float pretty trivially -- the question is whether the
reader must be modified to read them in, and what are the compliance
issues if any.
Take care,
Robert Dodier <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am using GCL 2.6.6 on linux. I find that GCL
> apparently can compute IEEE 754 special values,
> but then it complains when the number is to be printed
> on the console.
>
> E.g. (* 1e300 1e300) succeeds, so far as I can tell,
> and yields IEEE 754 infinity. However, then there is
> an error message about printing the result.
>
> What needs to be modified in GCL in order to make
> floating point inf and nan (not a number) printable?
>
> Thanks for any insights.
>
> Robert Dodier
>
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