[gambit-list] integer->char bootstrap problem: git head goes into infinite loop

Bakul Shah bakul at bitblocks.com
Fri Jan 31 13:56:04 EST 2014


On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:02:07 EST Bradley Lucier <lucier at math.purdue.edu> wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 10:29 AM, Marc Feeley wrote:
> >
> >
> > Unfortunately the C code in those library function is very low-level (it di
> rectly accesses the bit pattern of the floats).  So I don’t consider them very
>  portable.
> 
> They look at the bits because all processors now put the bits in the
> same place.  If a function isn't written in assembler, I'd consider it
> portable.

I agree.  I don't think you can even do the right thing
(except perhaps laboriously) in every case without looking at
the raw bits.  ilogb for instance.



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