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From: Alan Falloon <Al.Falloon@synopsys.COM>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] float precision on AMD64
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 10:25:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <425A88CF.60107@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <425A7EF0.40804@exomi.com>

Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:

> As the above link notes, since integers on most machines are 
> twos-complement and not sign-magnitude, it doesn't work right for 
> negative floats.
>
> Working around this isn't possible without knowing it's actually a 
> float (in which case a floating point compare could just be used, 
> anyhow).

My mistake. I shouldn't be posting first thing Monday morning.


      reply	other threads:[~2005-04-11 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-10  1:14 Mike Lin
2005-04-10  1:41 ` [Caml-list] " Robert Roessler
2005-04-10 11:57   ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-10 12:01     ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-04-10 14:42       ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-10 13:19         ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-04-10 15:53           ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-10 14:12             ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-04-11 13:24               ` Alan Falloon
2005-04-11 13:43                 ` Ville-Pertti Keinonen
2005-04-11 14:25                   ` Alan Falloon [this message]

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