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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Here's a challenge for floating point lovers.
Message-ID: <2855@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 26 Jan 91 13:29:17 GMT
References: <16035@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <14964@smoke.brl.mil> <101@tdatirv.UUCP>
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In article <101@tdatirv.UUCP> sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
 > In article <14964@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
 > >Oops, I missed that; thanks for the correction.  FLT_RADIX then is okay
 > >for use in #if expressions, but the other <float.h> macros aren't, not
 > >even FLT_ROUNDS.
 > 
 > #define FLT_ROUNDS (__flt_rounds)
 > So, there exists an ANSI compliant C compiler that in fact
 > makes use of this permission for a non-constant float expression.

And right they are because it can change at runtime.
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dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl