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>>>>> "DW" == David Whipp <david_whipp@fast-chip.com> writes: DW> Dan Sugalski wrote: >> Okay, I'm whipping together the "fancy math" section of the >> interpreter assembly language. I've got: DW> [...] >> Can anyone think of things I've forgotten? It's been a while >> since I've done numeric work. DW> I'm not sure where this belongs, but I'd really like to have DW> a usage model for some of the edges of arithmetic. For example, DW> it should be possible to enable/disable overflow and underflow DW> exceptions. Basically, Perl5 should be IEE754 compliant; and it DW> should support the (optional) traps. It would also nice to have DW> a saturation-on-overflow mode/type. we are planning automatic over/underflow to bigfloat. so there is no need for traps. they could be provided at the time of the conversion to big*. DW> If you have this type of stuff for floats; it'd be consistant to DW> have it for integers, too. overflow to bigint is also planned. uri -- Uri Guttman --------- uri@sysarch.com ---------- http://www.sysarch.com SYStems ARCHitecture and Stem Development ------ http://www.stemsystems.com Search or Offer Perl Jobs -------------------------- http://jobs.perl.orgThread Previous | Thread Next