Float bug toolkit: what the hash is this?
Tim Olson
tim at jumpnet.com
Mon Feb 16 23:04:02 UTC 1998
>In any of the examples, an attempt to print an infinity seems to cause
>Squeak to run amuck. It's the printing that is causing the low memory
>condition.
>
>
>Squeak needs to properly support IEEE floating point. As a start it should
>at least add tests for Infinity+, infinity-, NAN, and maybe gradual
>underflow.
See the latest version (1.31):
isNaN "tests for Not-A-Number"
isInf "tests for +/- Infinity"
Float printing now handles IEEE-754 NaN's, Inf's, and denorms without
blowing up.
-- tim
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