Subject: Query: Gnome-Calculator bug 702817

[Elita Lobo <loboelita gmail com>]

Respected Sir,

In number.vala file there is an if condition for overflow which if made false can enable the calculator to calculate large powers , large factorials and it also eliminates the error of overflow that occurs while calculating ln(e^x) for x>3.

As given in the comments, this if condition prevents it from crashing due to overflow but I cant find any case in which it could happen. Kindly let me know the in which case this code given below was meant to be applicable so that I can substitute it with a more efficient condition for overflow which wont affect other calculations.

CODE:

  {

            /* This is probably insufficient overflow detection, but it makes us not crash at least. */

            if (T+3 < med)

            {

                mperr (_("Overflow: the result couldn't be calculated"));

                return new Number.integer (0);

            }

Regards,

Elita Lobo