Re: [Chicken-hackers] Single-precision doubles

[felix winkelmann]

On 10/8/06, Zbigniew <address@hidden> wrote:
> It's amazing, but it's true--on some embedded systems, doubles and
> floats are both 32 bits.  In this case, the flonum size and tag
> constants don't agree with the actual constructed flonum, because the
> constants aren't based on sizeof(double).  The first patch
> (runtime-basic-flonum.diff) fixes the issue and is probably safe to
> apply, though not useful to a general audience.   Sorry it's not a
> unified diff; it modifies C_flonum and C_number in runtime.c.

Thanks for the patches, Zbigniew. I'll postpone them until 2.5 is
released, but will incorporate them once that has been done.


cheers,
felix


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