From: Norbert Koch <viteno@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Scoring out of bounds
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 06:49:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vz65i0smwp.fsf@redqueen.bytechase.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9yekwohj9a.fsf@jpl.org> (Katsumi Yamaoka's message of "Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:04:17 +0900")
Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
> I've committed it with a slight modification[1]. Thanks.
Thanks for applying it.
> BTW, isn't it an XEmacs bug? Emacs's floor can handle the value
> of an argument that it returns the maximum integer:
>
> (floor (+ (lsh -1 -1) 0.999))
> => 134217727
Ah, I've always shifted in the other direction :-)
I'm not sure whether to call this behaviour a bug. If an operation
returns an out of bound value, you've always got two possibilities:
flag an error or silently convert it to the maximum allowed error.
norbert.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-04 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-02 8:54 Norbert Koch
2003-11-02 12:17 ` Norbert Koch
2003-11-04 4:04 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-11-04 5:49 ` Norbert Koch [this message]
2003-11-04 6:18 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-11-19 6:48 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2003-11-20 7:30 ` Norbert Koch
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