Subject: Re: HUGE_VAL
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/14/2000 11:48:03
This has been fixed. See lib/7829
> From math.h:
> extern const char __infinity[];
> #define HUGE_VAL (*(const double *)(const void *)__infinity)
>
> 1) Does the following test prog make sense? (It does say double above...)
>
> #include <math.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> printf(" HUGE_VAL: % g\n", HUGE_VAL);
> printf("-HUGE_VAL: % g\n",-HUGE_VAL);
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> 2) What am I missing?
>
> Output on i386:
> HUGE_VAL: Inf
> -HUGE_VAL: -Inf
>
> Output on arm32:
> HUGE_VAL: 1.06048e-314
> -HUGE_VAL: -1.06048e-314
>
> which doesn't appear to be particularly huge to me.
>
> Systems: NetBSD-1.4U/i386, egcs-2.91.66; NetBSD-1.4/arm32, egcs-2.91.60
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Patrick
>
> PS - I'd be interested to see the output from an m68k port user...