🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1990Aug14.034632.5561@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
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>Perhaps Quintus's problem is that they've stolen some low order bits of the
>fraction for Prolog tag bits, but their I/O routines are the same as C's and
>are thus programmed as if the low order bits were significant.

Yep, representation thy has a few wrinkles. Thanks for the references;
I'll follow them up.

I don't think Quintus uses tag bits in its representation of
floats (at the expense of mantissa). From the C routines I use 
(under Ultix) it seems the low order 4 or 5 bits would have to be used 
to account for the discrepancy observed by Iverson -- too much surely
(there aren't that many primitive types in QP for one thing).

R O'K may be able to correct me if I've applied S Holmes incorrectly
here.

-Kym Horsell