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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to test for +/- INFINITY, etc. in C with IEEE
Message-ID: <203@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Dec-85 00:29:54 EST
Article-I.D.: ism780c.203
Posted: Fri Dec 27 00:29:54 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Dec-85 13:01:48 EST
References: <993@turtlevax.UUCP> <130@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA
Lines: 13
Keywords: cast, conversion, int, float

In article <130@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>
>union liffle {		/* long int / float union is a liffle. */
>	long int lf_l;
>	float lf_f;
>};
>const union liffle inf = { 0x7f80000 };	/* initialises 1st elem */
>#define INFINITY (inf.lf_f)

Aren't you jumping the gun a little here?  The above isn't legal yet!

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