Re: [Chicken-users] IEEE float arithmetic

[John Cowan]

Scripsi:

> Can you install a workaround for Cygwin that processes infs and nans
> correctly on input, and also correct the output on all systems so we don't
> get the non-inputtable forms Infinity.0, -Infinity.0, and +NaN.0 printed?
> (I presume the problems are in string->number and number->string.)

I should add that I have filed a bug against the newlib library, but I
don't know how long it'll take a fix to filter down into Cygwin.

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