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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:07:18 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: RESEND: Re: e_pow.c
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Hello.

Kbwms AT aol DOT com wrote:
> Kudos to the person who put a note in a patch for e_pow.c concerning 
> cases where, for z=pow(x,y), when x is very near 1 and y is very large, 
> z would vanish.  It prompted me to create test cases for all three 
> floating point precisions.  The same problem existed for the float 
> version and was easily fixed.
> 
> For testing the double precision case, the parameters are:
> 
> x = 1-DBL_EPSILON
> y = log(DBL_MIN)/log(1-DBL_EPSILON)

Could you send a patch for DJGPP 2.04, please?

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

PS: KBW: I now have an e-mail client that doesn't crash on 90% of your
mails. ;)

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]

"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone."
   -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek