With 5.9.2 and CVS maxima with clisp on cygwin I see
(%i1) float(0.0b0);
Floating point overflow in converting 0.0B0 to flonum
-- an error. Quitting. To debug this try debugmode(true);
I don't see this with 5.9.2 on windows (gcl)
I will investigate further.
D
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