>>>>> "James" == James Amundson <amundson@fnal.gov> writes:
James> This deserves some discussion. We agree that we need to fix the
James> precision problems in general.
James> With Sam's patch:
James> 1) The tests work as expected with clisp 2.29 and clisp 2.30.
James> 2) clisp 2.30 prints a zillion messages about floating point contagion.
The floating contagion messages are non-ANSI behavior in some sense.
Can't we just turn off the floating-contagion messages instead?
James> Without Sam's patch:
James> 1) The tests work as expected with clisp 2.29, but at least one
James> additional failure is observed with 2.30.
What additional failure was that? (I haven't tried 2.30.)
James> We will not fix all floating-point inconsistencies before 5.9.0. I am
James> uncomfortable releasing 5.9.0 with avoidable errors in the current
James> version of clisp. As a compromise, we could add a bug to the bug tracker
James> to remind us that the clisp floating-point setting is a temporary hack.
James> What do you think?
This is fine with me.
Ray