Re: calc: E command hangs Emacs.

[Michaël Cadilhac]

address@hidden (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:

> We can then consider installing the following patch which fixes an
> overflow of expt (namely that (expt 10.0 256) yields 0) on some system
                                      Read -256.
> that implement pow(3) without an ERANGE error (e.g., Cygwin).
>
>
> --- floatfns.c        26 Jul 2007 07:27:51 +0200      1.94
> +++ floatfns.c        21 Sep 2007 11:22:16 +0200      

> +  IN_FLOAT2 (f3 = pow (f1, f2), "expt", arg1, arg2);
> +  /* Check for overflow in the result.  */
> +  if (f1 != 0.0 && f3 == 0.0)
> +    range_error ("expt", arg1);
> +  return make_float (f3);

Installed.

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