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Re: values.h / 2


On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 12:42:15PM -0800, J. J. Farrell wrote:
>values.h is an old UNIX standard file for these things - it was
>documented in issues 1 and 2 of the X/Open Portability Guide.
>float.h was standardized in ANSI C in 1989 and had become widely
>used before then. values.h was withdrawn from the standard in
>issue 3 of the XPG in 1989, and never made it into POSIX at all.
>
>In short, values.h has been obsolete for over 12 years - any code
>which wants to be portable should be changed to use the float.h
>identifiers instead. If anyone wanted to do it, I can't imagine
>any harm in adding a values.h to the cygwin distribution which
>#defines the values.h identifiers to their float.h equivalents,
>but it would be better if the software which uses values.h were
>changed to not do so.

FWIW, I'll accept a patch which creates values.h with this criteria.

cgf

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