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r77139 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-30 12:12:23 +0000 (Wed, 30 Dec 2009) | 3 lines
Issue #7534: Fix handling of nans, infinities, and negative zero in **
operator, on IEEE 754 platforms. Thanks Marcos Donolo for original patch.
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r77140 | mark.dickinson | 2009-12-30 12:22:49 +0000 (Wed, 30 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Add Marcos Donolo for work on issue 7534 patch.
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Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #7534: Fix handling of IEEE specials (infinities, nans,
+ negative zero) in ** operator. The behaviour now conforms to that
+ described in C99 Annex F.
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- Issue #1811: improve accuracy and cross-platform consistency for
true division of integers: the result of a/b is now correctly
rounded for ints a and b (at least on IEEE 754 platforms), and in