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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manx 3.6 bug & DBW's ext.c
Keywords: Overflow converting to FFP format!
Message-ID: <2211@pur-phy>
Date: 28 Apr 89 01:28:21 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
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In article <2205@pur-phy> murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy) writes:
>
>Warren's comment about redefining the value HUGE to 1.7e+18 is not necessary.
>That value is correct according to ACCCK* PPHHHT*!@ Microsoft C 5.1 which
>lists the limits for the float as 1.7e+38 and 1.7e-38. (MSC5.1 uses the IEEE
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OOOPPS!!  this is supposed to be 3.4e+38 and 3.4e-38.  I was writing without the
manual in front of me. SOORRYY!
Bill Murphy
murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu