Subject: Re: CMUCL18d on Alpha?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 20:07:33 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3228581253186170@naggum.net>

* "Joe Marshall"
| Allegro CL 6.1 on Windows with the latest patches seems to have no problems.
| (= 1.0d0 (+ 1.0d0 double-float-epsilon))  gives T

  That _is_ the problem.  It should return false.

| Did you use double-float-negative-epsilon for the subtractive case?

  Look, I subtract 1 from the equivalent of (1+ double-float-epsilon).

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