[fpc-devel]bugs to close

[Johannes Berg]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:25, Florian Klaempfl wrote:

> Which checks do you mean exactly?

Actually there are two things.
I originally thought it would be better to just let the FPU execute the
instructions and then catch the signal/exception/whatever after the
fact.

> I guess the poster meant that e.g. (-3)^2 is possible in inside real
> numbers however the default forumula exp(2*ln(-3)) faults on it.

And thats the other. And I'm an idiot for writing a patch that won't
work. Apologies for that. Attached is a patch that really fixes the
issue and does that by checking the arguments and doing a transformed
calculation.

johannes
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