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From: mark@hpcllmr.HP.COM (Mark Rozhin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Re^2: Control variables in FOR loops
Message-ID: <950021@hpcllmr.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Feb 89 21:02:44 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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>It will ease debugging if the runtime system is able to detect 'NaN'.
>A lot of computers use two complement meaning (in a 16 bit
>environment) that the range goes from -32768 to 32767. Use -32768 as
>'Nan' and you have a 'normal' range -32767 to 32767...

very nice idea. kind of like IEEE floating point. but isn't there code
out there that relies on -32768?

mr