1.1.0: wrong negative HUGE_VAL

Parker, Ron rdparker@butlermfg.com
Fri Jun 9 11:50:00 GMT 2000


>      The problem is that HUGE_VAL contains the wrong negative value
> -6.59614e-229. The following test program reproduces my probelm:

This is a bug.  I know what it is doing.  I am trying to determine how it is
happening.  For now an ugly hack to work around it is to add the following
to the very top of your main() function.

#ifdef __CYGWIN__
	__infinity.d = 1.0/0.0;
#endif



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