[torquedev] Re: trunk not compiiing on OS X 10.4

[Matti Bickel]

Glen Beane <glen.beane at gmail.com> wrote:
> int main (int argc, char **argv)
> {
>    double x = 1e500;
> 
>    return 0;
> }

Here's what the C99 Standard says (5.2.4.2.2):
The values given in the following list shall be replaced by constant
expressions with implementation-defined values that are greater than or
equal to those shown:
- maximum representable finite floating-point number
FLT_MAX  1E+37
DBL_MAX  1E+37
LDBL_MAX 1E+37

You can't *expect* an arch to support 1e500, afaik. Haven't had a look
at Apple's gcc in a while, here are my values:

float_max: 3.402823e+38, double_max: 1.797693e+308, long_double_max:
1.797693E+308

mabi at pluto coding % gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2)

mabi at pluto coding % uname -mip
ppc 7455, altivec supported PowerBook6,3


HTH,
  Matti
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Regards, Matti Bickel
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