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From: dmmartindale@watmath.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: f77 bug
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Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 20:46:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 20:46:36 1983
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For what it's worth, the silent replacement of a too-large number with the
largest possible floating value is a "feature" of ldexp(), which is what
the Berkeley version of atof() calls to do the final conversion of the
integer mantissa and exponent to floating format.  It DOES set "errno"
in the process, but no one checks it.