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Article #4541Re: Microsoft C actually does something better!
From: Steelworker
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 20:41
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 20:41
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In article <8904@sail.LABS.TEK.COM> toma@sail.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy) writes:
>Microsoft C has been bad-mouthed here by myself and others over the years,
>but this past weekend I discovered at least one place where it beats the
>major competition -- the math library. Two cases:
>Case 1: { double x=1e200; printf("%g",x*x); }
>(With some compilers, the 80x87 has to have the overflow trap masked off).
First problem- the printf should read
printf("%lg",x*x);
^
I have made this error enough times to preach about this one!
Try your test's again with this and post the results.
Robert Blair
6600m00n@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu
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