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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2008-01-23 09:18:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2008-01-23 09:18:41 +0000 |
| commit | b68c599a1231c4d11ec0b0a667ce0c407c357eab (patch) | |
| tree | d5ae12e45397be6d6266d7a947752951af4a968f /Porting/Glossary | |
| parent | d2aeed1648166d254ac68525c35b77dec4ba8772 (diff) | |
| download | perl-b68c599a1231c4d11ec0b0a667ce0c407c357eab.tar.gz | |
Fix the misplaced warnings and failing tests caused by the precision
loss warning on ++ and -- by moving the check to Configure time,
creating a new config.sh variable nv_overflows_integers_at which
contains an constant expression for the value of the NV which can't
be incremented by 1.0
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@33049
Diffstat (limited to 'Porting/Glossary')
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/Glossary | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/Glossary b/Porting/Glossary index a457ed5b32..42d75a14ef 100644 --- a/Porting/Glossary +++ b/Porting/Glossary @@ -3799,6 +3799,11 @@ nv_preserves_uv_bits (perlxv.U): This variable indicates how many of bits type uvtype a variable nvtype can preserve. +nv_overflows_integers_at (perlxv.U): + This variable gives the largest integer value that NVs can hold + as a constant floating point expression. + If it could not be determined, it holds the value 0. + nveformat (perlxvf.U): This variable contains the format string used for printing a Perl NV using %e-ish floating point format. |