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bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p,
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations |
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Tue, 27 Aug 2019 19:26:28 -0400 |
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> I have no strong opinion on how best to detect broken infinity
> handling, but will just note that ±Inf are useful even in
> integer-only code as identities for `min' and `max' and similar
> code --- in fact, more so now that there is no longer a greatest
> integer.
I agree, but I am arguing for a stronger conclusion. Handling
infinite floats is a feature of Emacs, so if they don't work, that is
a bug. Compiling Emacs with -ffinite-math-only causes this bug,
so we cannot support that mode of compilation.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
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- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, (continued)
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Matt Huszagh, 2019/08/23
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Stefan Kangas, 2019/08/23
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Glenn Morris, 2019/08/23
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/23
bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/24
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/24
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/24
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/24
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Richard Stallman, 2019/08/24
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/27
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations,
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- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Andreas Schwab, 2019/08/28
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/29
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Andreas Schwab, 2019/08/29
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/29
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/29
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/08/29
- bug#37140: 27.0.50; calc gives "Wrong type argument: number-or-marker-p, inf" to many operations, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/08/30