Re: Is this a bug?

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On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:50:22PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > I'm wondering if it's a problem with RISC OS' FPE, because Lua
> 
> I'm not running RISC OS on my Acorn at the moment, but under Linux the
> script you give also works fine (except that the format returns 2147483647
> rather than -21....8). I think GCC under ARM Linux also uses (a variant of)
> the FPE, no?

No, Linux/ARM uses Corel's NetWinder floating point emulator, where RISC OS
uses ARM's/David Seal's FPE emulator.

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