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RE: HUGE is missing in math.h
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <tprince at computer dot org>
- Cc: "'Ralf Corsepius'" <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>,"'Newlib List'" <newlib at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:17:11 +0100
- Subject: RE: HUGE is missing in math.h
----Original Message----
>From: Tim Prince
>Sent: 28 June 2005 15:02
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
>> ----Original Message----
>>
>>
>>> From: Tim Prince
>>> Sent: 28 June 2005 13:36
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>>> 64-bit, 80-bit and 128-bit long long are supported in common
>>> IEEE-compliant compilers,
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you're getting at here, "long long" is an
>> integer type. I'll assume that you meant to say "long double", and I
>> imagine this would be the same as the reason why Jeff said that
>> "HUGE_VALL is the only one that is difficult."
>>
>>
>>
> Right, thanks for correcting me.
Heh, that wasn't the main point; what I'd be most interested to hear from
you is whether you think casting INF to (long double) would be a valid way
to generate HUGE_VALL, or not, if you have formed an opinion on the matter.
cheers,
DaveK
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