GCL & float overflow



maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu wrote on 05/04/2009 12:09:24 PM:

 
> Are you running a recent CVS version? FP2FLO is supposed to check for
> overflow to handle the case that GCL doesn't signal an overflow on
> scale-float.

Yes for the test with Clozure and no for the test with GCL. So it wasn't
a GCL problem, it was a Maxima problem. Thanks.

Barton