Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:47:19 -0600
From: Eric Rudd <rudd AT cyberoptics DOT com>
Subject: Re: elefunt results
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ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se wrote:

>According to Eric Rudd:
>  
>
>>ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se wrote:
>>
>>>Alas there seems to be some failures. I'm not planning to try to understand or correct them, but I'm reporting it in case somebody else likes to examine it.
>>>
>>I will comment on these results, since I wrote the libc elementary math 
>>functions.
>>
[lengthy explanation snipped]

>Thank you for the explanation. To avoid further confusion about the failures I want to
>
>1. Put the quote above in tests/libc/ansi/math/elefunt/readme.DJGPP.
>
>or
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>2. Put a link to the archived mail quoted above at delorie.com.
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>
>If that's ok with you Eric.
>
>
>I prefer 1.
>
The first choice sounds fine to me.  If you are not planning to quote 
the entire E-mail message, it would be good at least to put a date in 
it.  I also noticed a typo in this sentence,

>>I could have chosen to raise ERANGE only when a finite result gets assigned a value of zero *of* infinity.
>>
which, of course, should read:

>>I could have chosen to raise ERANGE only when a finite result gets assigned a value of zero or infinity.
>>
>I also want to commit the following patch as it makes it build and it makes the failures in sync with the output.
>
I don't have enough knowledge to comment on that patch.

-Eric