I wonder if Babbage had any idea how much trouble he was starting. rac
On Jan 4, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:39:39 -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> Racket sets the x87 control word to use double precision instead of >> extended precision. That setting apparently interferes with the pow() >> C library function. > > The following page suggests that the problem is relatively specific to pow(): > > http://www.vinc17.org/research/extended.en.html > > (That page is cited in a context similar to ours at > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16122) > > For now, anyway, I don't have a better solution than resetting the FP > mode back to extended precision before calling pow() under Linux. > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
