From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: Zeno Lee <zeno.lee@earthlink.net>
Cc: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>, <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] weird floating poing behavior on windows
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404021559490.25700-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a301c418f1$70053170$6401a8c0@xp>
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Zeno Lee wrote:
> This does not happen to me on Solaris from which I do all my ocaml work, but
> I happened to be using the toplevel on windows as a quick and dirty
> calculator when I noticed the different behavior.
Gnu Libc has special hacks in it so that it will want to print out 2.0
instead of 1.9999999997824 etc. Which masks the error, it doesn't
eliminate it.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-02 13:41 [Caml-list] failwith, raise and type inference Paul Guyot
2004-04-02 13:49 ` Frederic van der Plancke
2004-04-02 13:56 ` Paul Guyot
2004-04-02 13:51 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-04-02 13:59 ` Correnson Loïc
2004-04-02 14:09 ` Luc Maranget
2004-04-02 19:39 ` [Caml-list] weird floating poing behavior on windows Zeno Lee
2004-04-02 20:03 ` Greg Bacon
2004-04-02 20:07 ` David Brown
2004-04-02 20:31 ` Zeno Lee
2004-04-02 20:50 ` Pierre Weis
2004-04-02 22:01 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2004-04-02 21:58 ` Brian Hurt
2004-04-02 20:28 ` [Caml-list] failwith, raise and type inference Pierre Weis
2004-04-05 22:52 ` Ker Lutyn
2004-04-06 1:07 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-04-06 5:23 ` Issac Trotts
2004-04-06 15:15 ` skaller
2004-04-06 1:15 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-06 7:05 ` skaller
2004-04-06 11:29 ` Eric C. Cooper
2004-04-09 7:18 ` Christophe TROESTLER
2004-04-09 7:32 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-04-09 8:03 ` skaller
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