David Kastrup wrote Friday, January 04, 2013 8:21 AM > Oscar Dub <oscar...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> From a user perspective, I thought it might be nice for the compiler >> to send out some kind of error or warning message. Currently there's >> no sign of anything wrong except the final output. Is this valid >> enough an issue to be worth a quick bug report? > > Overflow in C++ Rational arithmetic would take effort to reliably and > would complicate the code base considerably. At some point of time, the > Rational class will likely get replaced with Scheme rationals (which > have "arbitrary precision") and the problem will go away.
Until then we ought to document this as a "Known issue" in NR 1.2.1 under Scaling durations. Copying to Bug list so bug squad can raise a Doc issue if they agree. Trevor _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
