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- From: kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de (James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763)
- Subject: Re: sizeof(1L) in preprocesor;How to tell sizeof(double)>sizeof(long) ?
- In-Reply-To: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 9 Jan 1996 11:39:50 GMT
- Message-ID: <KANZE.96Jan9135752@slsvewt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>
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- References: <sc3f9vb6gk.fsf@lns101.lns.cornell.edu> <1996Jan5.094122.16151@sq.com>
- <vyzd98ug7w4.fsf@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- <tuent98zl4.fsf@nemo.bedford.waii.com> <4ctk66$57j@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 09 Jan 1996 12:57:52 GMT
-
- In article <4ctk66$57j@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick
- Maclaren) writes:
-
- |> In article <tuent98zl4.fsf@nemo.bedford.waii.com>, gsez020@nemo.bedford.waii.com (Pete Forman) writes:
- |> |> >>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas Schwab <schwab@lamothe.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
- |> |> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Brader <msb@sq.com> writes:
- |> |>
- |> |> Mark> #if LONG_MAX * DBL_EPSILON > 1
- |> |>
- |> |> Andreas> This doesn't work as floating point numbers aren't
- |> |> Andreas> allowed in #if expressions.
- |> |>
- |> |> Try changing to something like
- |> |>
- |> |> #if LONG_MAX >> DBL_MANT_DIG > 1
-
- |> Don't bother - the 'constants' in <float.h> aren't! This is a specific
- |> exclusion to make life easier for systems with separate floating-point
- |> processors, and makes <float.h> almost useless for numerical analysts.
-
- |> I tried to get this imbecility (and it IS an imbecility) fixed, but I
- |> failed. So any portable library of mathematical functions has to define
- |> its own system-dependent constants, and can use <float.h> only for
- |> comparison :-(
-
- Is this true for all of the ``constants'' in float.h, or only some of
- them? I don't have my C standard here to check, but I thought that
- this was only true of the constants whose type was non-integral.
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