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Re <9210022311.AA20110@cookie-crisp>
<1992Oct2.000517.20436@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>:

> Nntp-Posting-Host: korak.jpl.nasa.gov
> Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:05:17 GMT
> To: bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu
> Subject: Negative exponents no longer work for 2.52
> 
> The following PostScript code works fine on ghostscript-2.2
> but no longer works on ghostscript-2.52
> 
> ------------------------------
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> 1.0E0
> 1.0e0
> 1.0E+0
> 1.0e+0
> 1.0e-0
> 1.0E-0
> pstack
> ---------------------------------
> 
> The output is as follows:
> 
> Initializing... done.
> Error: /undefined in 1.0e-0
> Operand stack:
>     1  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0  1.0
> Execution stack:
>     %interp_exit    --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  false  --nostringval--  --nostringval--  --nostringval--
> Dictionary stack:
>     399/479  4/200
> Ghostscript 2.5.2 (9/20/92)
>   Copyright (C) 1990, 1992 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.
>   All rights reserved.
> Distributed by Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> Ghostscript comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file LICENSE for details.
> GS<9>quit
> 
> This occurs for any negative exponent.

This is a Sun compiler bug.  It is documented in make.doc.

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