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- From: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
- Subject: FLT_DIG, tabs, FPU, yacc
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.082501.20615@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
- Reply-To: J.Jagger@sheffield-city-poly.ac.uk
- Organization: The Internet
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:25:01 GMT
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- Hi peeps,
- I've just noticed that float.h has a line ;
- #define FLT_DIG 6
- I know that 6 is the number written in Plaugers ANSI C book, but he
- has acknowledged that this is an error, and it should be 7.
- I don't whether people leave it as 6 so as not to break existing code
- (can't imagine much would break), or whether they just don't know
- this.
-
- Couple of other queries.
- 1. I hate a tab size of 8 in vi. I much prefer 4. How can I change
- this. Is there a port of tabs* anywhere?
- 2. I'm running tests to try and break C library code. How do I
- instruct gcc to link in the maths stuff? E.g. I've got a call to
- sqrt(-1.0) and include <float.h> and <math.h> but it doesn't resolve.
- 3. Has anyone run the Plum Hall Validation Suite on the C library ?
- 4. Yacc. How do I instruct this NOT to buffer input. That is, when I
- press return I want to process the input.
-
- Thanks, keep the excellent work/play
- JJ
- :: Jon Jagger asjrbj@oak.scp.ac.uk
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