From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA25060; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:55:42 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA24331 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:55:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from herd.plethora.net (herd.plethora.net [205.166.146.1]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i32KteYM032066 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:55:40 +0200 Received: from bhurt.plethora.net (bhurt.plethora.net [205.166.146.49]) by herd.plethora.net (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id i32KtNQ08156; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:55:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0600 (CST) From: Brian Hurt X-X-Sender: bhurt@localhost.localdomain To: Zeno Lee cc: David Brown , Subject: Re: [Caml-list] weird floating poing behavior on windows In-Reply-To: <00a301c418f1$70053170$6401a8c0@xp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Miltered: at concorde by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 zeno:01 hacks:01 libc:01 ocaml:01 toplevel:01 wrote:03 behavior:03 behavior:03 redirect:95 gnu:05 lee:94 brian:06 brian:06 fri:07 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 43 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. -- "Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Gene Spafford Brian ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners