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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 :-(


Nick Maclaren,
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