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From:
H.Merijn Brand
Date:
December 14, 2004 03:45
Subject:
Re: modf chainsaw?
Message ID:
20041214124404.2BA0.H.M.BRAND@hccnet.nl
On Tue 14 Dec 2004 12:14, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org> wrote:
> > >Then the Perl_modfl stuff in numeric.c can be ripped out, and the
> > >requirement for modfl for using long doubles can be removed from
> > >Configure.
> > 
> > OTOH:
> 
> Yeah, I saw that, but couldn't make heads or tails of when an (IV) cast
> would produce a different number than modf.  Both should truncate zeroward.
> Neither should involve any rounding at all.
> 
> But I had meant to note it and that pp_int used to be another modf
> consumer (5.8.0 and earlier).

Which rules out the chainsaw, because the same Configure os used for 5.6.x,
5.8.x, and blead

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