[MLton-devel] Real.fromLargeInt

[Stephen Weeks]

> This is very weird.  I merged the changes in mlton/atoms/prim.fun,
> basis-library/real/real.{sig,sml} from on-20021018-prof-branch into the
> HEAD branch, followed by a make nj-mlton.
...
> Then the test file compiles but raises the Overflow exception.  Opening
> IEEEReal instead of adding and replacing the out-of-scope
> constructors/variables makes the exception go away.  Can anyone else
> duplicate this behavior?

Yes.  The problem is that toLargeInt also relies on the
IEEEReal.float_class constructors being in scope.  If they are not,
INF is a variable, matches anything, and causes Overflow to be
raised.


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