Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] New "numbers" egg branch

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 04:47:04PM -0700, Kon Lovett wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2010, at 2:37 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> >This is not exactly a bug, but I note that you compute the system's
> >floating-point parameters at run time instead of using the standard
> ><float.h> header.  There's a quick summary of this header at
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float.h and a detailed explanation at
> >http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/float.h.html .
> 
> The applicable values (for double) from float.h are exported by chicken:

Thanks, guys!  I'll have a look at it later.

Cheers,
Peter
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