Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] 2 bugs (more detailed description of problem)

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Florian Hengstberger wrote:

> pl [0.1:1] 1.e11/x
> 
> and zoom to let's say (0.14,6.5e11) - (0.9,1.4e11) and the same error 
> occurs again.

[Error is that the y range of the zoomed plot is completely bollocks, 
result depending on the host platform.]

> So it actually depends on the size of the numbers!

> I bet you are using a platform independent library for the manipulation 
> of floats ...

Based on what clue?

> (where does the non gnuplot-style error message "integer overflow; 
> change to floating point"
> come from, why does the error message differ from platform to platform?).

Because we're *not* using any such library.  If we did, the message 
would be the same, and the behaviour would be platform-independent.

As there don't appear to be many of the core team actually reading the 
bugs mailing list, I'm forwarding this to the beta list.

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