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From: N8TM
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:00
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While there may be other problems, I find 2 errors in <float.h> supplied with my copy of gcc. FLT_DIG is reported as 6 where 7 is correct. This goes way back to the original proposal, so it may be hard to get it changed in the distribution. DBL_MAX is given to only 16 digits, where 17 are required to obtain the correct binary value. The correct value is 1.7976931348623157e308. The value rounded of to 16 digits compiles to Infinity and that is not the fault of the compiler! Tim
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113d02,ce373ce11c1bb63d X-Google-Attributes: gid113d02,public From: n8tm@aol.com (N8TM) Subject: float.h Date: 1996/12/13 Message-ID: <19961213022000.VAA24581@ladder01.news.aol.com> X-Deja-AN: 203820645 sender: bug-gcc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu x-admin: news@aol.com organization: AOL http://www.aol.com x-gateway: relay7.UU.NET from bug-gcc to gnu.gcc.bug; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 21:21:20 EST newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug