From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
To: Thanh Vo <vo@ucdavis.edu>
Cc: gsl-discuss@sourceware.org, bug-gsl@gnu.org,
"Earl T. Barr" <etbarr@ucdavis.edu>
Subject: Re: [Bug-gsl] Potential Bugs?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43k4np6k66.wl%bjg@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43mxsl6klg.wl%bjg@gnu.org>
At Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:38:19 +0100,
Brian Gough wrote:
> The overflow exception is a valid warning. It's also a bug in the
> sense that it is avoidable (although the end result is correct, z=-1
> since 1/inf=0). It would be better written as (32/y)/y.
Of course, apart from the extra factor of 2^5 that gives an underflow
instead but it's probably preferable to an overflow.
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