Re: C#/Parrot Status

[Dan Sugalski]

At 10:55 AM +1000 11/25/02, Rhys Weatherley wrote:

Nicholas Clark wrote:

 Floating point fills me with fear.

If it makes you feel better, C# does not require overflow
detection on floating-point operations.  FP overflow results
in +/-INF, underflow results in zero, and undefined is NAN.

Only integer overflow detection is required, and then only
on 32-bit, 64-bit, and native-sized integer types (8-bit
types don't need it).

If Parrot wants to add more opcodes for completeness sake,
then it won't do any harm to us, but don't bend over
backwards on FP for our sakes.

We need it for our own purposes, so it'll have to go in.

FP over/underflow, of course, is one of those wonderfully platform-dependent things. :(
--
Dan

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