Re: -infinity and REPRESENT

Bernd Paysan <[email protected]> Mon, 04 May 2020 21:53:59 +0200

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Am Montag, 4. Mai 2020, 20:54:17 CEST schrieb [email protected]:
> On 2020-05-04 17:24, Anton Ertl wrote:
> > I just re-implemented REPRESENT.
> > 
> > One issue is how to deal with -infinity (e.g., the result of -1e 0e
> > f/).
> > Previously Gforth 0.7.2+glibc produced "-inf" and f1=0 (positive),
> > f2=0 (not valid); other libc implementations might lead to different
> > results.
> 
> Sorry, what are f1 and f2?

flag1 is sign (-1 when negative), flag2 is valid (0 when invalid).

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