Make EXPT use double-precision throughout in more cases

[sbcl.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 16323bc..6a48974 100644 (file)
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
   * bug fix: on 64-bit systems setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
     (lp#870868)
   * bug fix: SB-POSIX tests failed on OpenBSD 5.0. (lp#892707)
+  * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
+    <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
+    instead of partially calculating only to single-precision.  (lp#741564;
+    thanks to Lutz Euler)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
   * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,