Re: New TextRider & oo2c patch

[Michael van Acken <mvacken@t-online.de>]

> > Second: A buglet in LRealStr
> > 
> > Converting 1E999 to LONGREAL does not result in an `outOfRange' error
> > (see module below).
> > 
> 
> The real problem was in the LRealConv module which was using a
> low-level routine to form the double real and was silently clamping
> the overflow to a valid value.  I've added some checking now to
> LRealConv to catch these sorts of overflows.  The updated module
> is attached.

Your new LRealConv.Mod breaks bootstrapping on my Linux box:

~/ooc$ backend/ansi-c/Test/run_bootstrap 
[...]
- lib/LRealStr.Mod
In file lib/LRealStr.Mod: 
1005:  6 Number out of range
13158:  6 Number out of range
Aborting

Please try again.

-- mva