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From: 6600m00n@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Steelworker)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft C actually does something better!
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Date: 5 Feb 91 20:41:09 GMT
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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