floating-point number - hardware or lisp dependent?

>>>>> "Volker" == Volker van Nek <volkervannek at gmail.com> writes:

    Volker> build_info();


    Volker> gives the information you want. Below there are some examples.


    Volker> If I am not mistaken Maxima on Windows is compiled with GCL, Ubuntu uses a SBCL-compiled version and
    Volker> I believe MAC uses SBCL too.


    Volker> Surprisingly CMUCL doesn't like 5e-324, 4e-324, 3e-324.

Neat.  CMUCL itself can handle 5d-324.  4d-324 is smaller than the
smallest representable float so an error is produced instead of
silently returning 0.  However, for 5d-324, it looks like a bug
printing.  Maxima tries (format t "~ve" 21 5d-324), which causes the
error.

Ray