[Caml-list] YAFPFR: Yet another floating point feature request

[Caml-list] YAFPFR: Yet another floating point feature request

[Thorsten Ohl]

The C library header file <float.h> contains (among others) the
following useful macros:

   /* Number of decimal digits of precision in a double */
#define DBL_DIG 15
   /* Difference between 1.0 and the minimum double greater than 1.0 */
#define DBL_EPSILON 2.2204460492503131e-16
   /* Minimum normalised double */
#define DBL_MIN 2.2250738585072014e-308
   /* Minimum int x such that 10**x is a normalised double */
#define DBL_MIN_10_EXP (-307)
   /* Maximum double */
#define DBL_MAX 1.7976931348623157e+308
   /* Maximum int x such that 10**x is a representable double */
#define DBL_MAX_10_EXP 308

It would be great if these values were accessible from O'Caml in a
future version so that numerical code could be made to work on
different machines.

Merci,
-Thorsten
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Thorsten Ohl, Physics Department, TU Darmstadt -- ohl@hep.tu-darmstadt.de
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Re: [Caml-list] YAFPFR: Yet another floating point feature request

[Chris Hecker]

>The C library header file <float.h> contains (among others) the
>following useful macros:
>It would be great if these values were accessible from O'Caml in a
>future version so that numerical code could be made to work on
>different machines.

I second this request (having defined a bunch in my own work).

Chris




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