Re: [Axiom-developer] Axiom on clisp

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Waldek Hebisch <address@hidden> writes:

| In some places Axiom code seem to assume that long-float is the
| same as double-float and allowing numbers comparable to
| MOST-POSITIVE-LONG-FLOAT may lead to overflow in double-float
| computations.

That is a bug in Axiom.  The fix is to use double-float everywhere.
See my previous postings on the subject.  This affect both the
interpreter/compile codes, as well as Algebra codes.

-- Gaby