On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:41:05PM +, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:56:30PM +0200, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> > > The problem come from the fact that for astonishing reasons 1.4e-45f is
> > > not seen as 1.4e-45.
> >
> > Why is thi
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Joe Buck wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:56:30PM +0200, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> > The problem come from the fact that for astonishing reasons 1.4e-45f is
> > not seen as 1.4e-45.
>
> Why is this astonishing? The smallest positive single-precision IEEE
> floating point nu
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 09:56:30PM +0200, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> The problem come from the fact that for astonishing reasons 1.4e-45f is
> not seen as 1.4e-45.
Why is this astonishing? The smallest positive single-precision IEEE
floating point number is roughly 1.175494e-38. Since user-specifie
Roberto Bagnara ha scritto:
> [Thanks to all those who responded to my previous problem-report
> wrt to the IEEE inexact-flag on the Alpha. We have filed a bug
> report for that one.]
>
> Hi there,
>
> we keep finding problems on the Alpha, and we are unsure about
> what is going on. I anticipa
