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Issue: FLOAT-UNDERFLOW (Version 2)
- To: CL-Cleanup@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- Subject: Issue: FLOAT-UNDERFLOW (Version 2)
- From: Kim Barrett <IIM@ECLA.USC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 89 18:19 EDT
- Comments: Received from Kim Barrett by KMP on MSDOS floppy disk via US Mail
- Sender: KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
Mostly ok.
Fix C-Y bug. FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW signaled when a computation overflows,
not underflows.
I think changing "should signal" to "signals" is likely to generate too much
heat for what I see as an otherwise pretty uncontroversial proposal. Even
"should signal" may be too strong.