26 Feb
2003
26 Feb
'03
8 a.m.
strtod() uses HUGE_VAL (if it follows the C standard), so it would make probably sense for STRTOD() to do likewise.
/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)
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2003-02-26 13:53: Subject: Floating point (conversion) bug (affected: v7.4 & v7.5; may be Hilfe only)
My system has a HUGE_VAL with positive infinity. Further inspection shows that pikes STRTOD uses HUGE for overflow, with a fallback to HUGE_VAL only if HUGE isn't defined. HUGE is defined on my system to 3.40282347e+38F. I wonder if there's a good reason for STRTOD to use HUGE firsthand.
/ Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS