It is not a general problem. What platform are you on?

Pike v7.5 release 3 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)

(float)"0.1e99";

(1) Result: inf

float x; x = 1e99;

(2) Result: inf

/ Martin Nilsson (har bott i google)

Previous text:

2003-02-26 03:08: Subject: Floating point (conversion) bug (affected: v7.4 & v7.5; may be Hilfe only)

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Hi there,

Just playing around:

Pike v7.5 release 3 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)

...

(float)"0.1e99";

Segmentation fault

Same for 7.4 (CVS versions two days old). And another one:

Pike v7.5 release 3 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)

...

float x; x = 1e99;

Segmentation fault

Seems that the problem is related to Hilfe - from file it prints value as expected, no segfaults.

Regards, /Al

/ Brevbäraren