Subject: Out of range floating point number determination
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:56:17 -0700
On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Steve Haflich <smh at franz.com> wrote:
> Whatever else, everyone don't forget that the behavior of float
> underflow needs to be checked and perhaps controlled on each platform in
> addition to float overflow.
>
Yes, we already try to take care of this so that underflows silently
underflow to zero. At least there's special code for clisp and abcl for
this. I assume other lisps default to this mode already.
Ray