Re: [kaffe] more on float_min and underflow

2004-07-14 Thread Dalibor Topic
Riccardo wrote: So the conclusion is: standard wisdom and usage on most unix system and processors and so the standard libraries on them and common C use define the limits with the NORMALIZED numbers. Java spec defines the minimum as a Denormalized number. On one side that is what I temporarily

[kaffe] more on float_min and underflow

2004-07-13 Thread Riccardo
Hello I did a careful study of the minimum and maximum value. I studied the limits.h of several machines, including sparc and mips. Those always have a minimum of approx. 1/2 e-38 which is very reasonable, read further below. I then studied: http://research.microsoft.com/~hollasch/cgindex/codi