Questions about NCEG

[Stephen Clamage]

In article <1990May29.193451.6533 at twinsun.com> eggert at twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
>There are ways to say the IEEE numbers in ANSI C + IEEE 754:
> [examples deleted]
>This lets you say some things portably that you can't say with hex contants,

Sorry. This is hardly portable. The compiler is allowed to object to
(refuse to compile) any of these.  If it compiles, the program may behave
in undefined ways in attempting to evaluate such expressions at run time.
(The compiler is not obligated to evaluate them at compiler time.)
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve at taumet.com