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Author SHA1 Message Date
Matthew Flatt
5afd1b4118 syntax-color/racket-lexer: update for single-precision and extflonums
Includes a doc fix to note `+inf.t', etc.
2013-03-29 07:23:49 -06:00
Michael Filonenko
35a093469c windows: extflonum support
Enable extflonums in a MSVC build by relying on a MinGW-built DLL,
"longdouble.dll". The DLL is loaded on startup. If the DLL isn't
available, then `extflonum-available?' reports #f.

Instead of setting the floating-point mode globally to extended
precision, the mode is changed only just before (and restored right
after) extflonum arithmetic operations.
2013-03-18 07:42:32 -07:00
Michael Filonenko
17b8092641 extflonums
An extflonum is like a flonum, but with 80-bit precision and
not a number in the sense of `number?': only operations such as
`extfl+' work on extflonums, and only on platforms where extflonums
can be implemented by hardware without interefering with flonums
(i.e., on platforms where SSE instructions are used for
double-precision floats).

[Patch provided by Michael Filonenko and revised by Matthew.]

The compiler tracks information about bindings that are known to
hold extflonums, but the JIT does not yet exploit this information
to unbox them (except as intermediate results).
2013-01-28 18:17:06 -07:00