>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
James> I certainly don't know the answer to this question. I also doubt anyone
James> else on the list does. I'm afraid that means you should just try
James> changing it and see what happens. I would be more reluctant to introduce
James> large changes in the numerical code if I thought the numerical code was
James> in better shape. Unfortunately, the parts of it I've looked at in detail
James> are pretty rudimentary. Please investigate changing the default.
Actually, I worked around the problem by modifying f2cl. f2cl was
assuming *read-default-float-format* was 'single-float. I can now
tell f2cl to use 'double-float when printing the converted code. Then
all double-floats don't have an exponent marker and all single-float
do. This works fine for maxima.
Ray