From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-04-21T14:09:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Roundoff problem with Float and Marshal

Hi,

At Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:24:15 +0900,
Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
> Does this make sense?  If not please let me clarify further as this makes
> a big difference in my use (and particularly testing of math functions)
> of Ruby, as many test cases for loading and saving more complicated objects
> such as Complex numbers must rely on the basic loading and saving of
> Marshal working correctly for floats.

Yes, thank you.  I was wrong, and apparently missed
[ruby-talk:69752].

But still I have a question: why restrict to IEEE754?

# CVS head version needs no assumption on float format, and no
# flag bits.

-- 
Nobu Nakada