Re: MPFR precision when FLT_RADIX != 2

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:44:11PM -0500, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: > > I'm not sure if these issues come up for fortran in prior releases. I > think i370 was removed before 4.0/f95 and decimal floats were added in > 4.2, which is not yet released. > This issue hasn't come up yet. In gfc_arith_ini

Re: MPFR precision when FLT_RADIX != 2

2006-12-04 Thread Geert Bosch
On Dec 3, 2006, at 12:44, Kaveh R. GHAZI wrote: In case i370 support is revived or a format not using base==2 is introduced, I could proactively fix the MPFR precision setting for any base that is a power of 2 by multiplying the target float precision by log2(base). In the i370 case I would mu