[Ecls-list] BUG: floating point underflow in TAN

[Mark Hoemmen]

On 5/19/07, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <jjgarcia at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> this is a bug in GLIBC 2.0, more precisely on the tanf() routine,
> which causes this kind of error, but only on 64-bit platforms. You can
> verify it writing the equivalent C program. I filed a bug report half
> a year ago but it is not being taken very seriously.

Could one work around it by disabling the underflow floating-point exception?

mfh