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Re: fix for expt bug
From: |
Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan |
Subject: |
Re: fix for expt bug |
Date: |
Wed, 3 Nov 2010 23:23:43 +0530 |
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ramakrishnan and others,
>
> I just realized that there is a better way to fix these bugs. We don't
> need a new top-level case in expt after all. Instead, we generalize the
> scm_integer_expt case to support inexact integer exponents.
>
> Within that case, if the exponent is an inexact integer, then we make it
> exact and make the base inexact, and then call scm_integer_expt.
Mark,
Why do we need to convert the base to inexact? is there any problem if
they are just as it is and we convert only the exponent to exact when
they are exact?
--
Ramakrishnan
- Re: fix for expt bug, (continued)
- Re: fix for expt bug, Mark H Weaver, 2010/11/02
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan, 2010/11/02
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan, 2010/11/02
- Re: fix for expt bug, Mark H Weaver, 2010/11/02
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/11/02
- Re: fix for expt bug, Mark H Weaver, 2010/11/02
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan, 2010/11/03
- Re: fix for expt bug, Mark H Weaver, 2010/11/03
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan, 2010/11/03
- Re: fix for expt bug, Mark H Weaver, 2010/11/03
- Re: fix for expt bug,
Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan <=
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan, 2010/11/03
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/11/03
- Re: fix for expt bug, Mark H Weaver, 2010/11/04
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/11/08
- Re: fix for expt bug, Andy Wingo, 2010/11/20
- Re: fix for expt bug, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/11/21
- [PATCH] Fix bugs in expt and integer-expt, Mark H Weaver, 2010/11/04
- Re: [PATCH] Fix bugs in expt and integer-expt, Ludovic Courtès, 2010/11/10