To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From:	"Joerg Brandt" <JOERG AT aku DOT physik DOT uni-oldenburg DOT de>
Organization:	Carl von Ossietzky Universit"at
Date:	6 Apr 93 21:42:28 MEZ
Subject:	Re: Bug in floating point constants
Reply-To:	joerg AT aku DOT physik DOT uni-oldenburg DOT de

On a 486DX33:
gcc -m486 -O2 dbl.c
go32 a.out
v:/aku/djgpp/bin/go32.exe version 1.09 Copyright (C) 1991 DJ Delorie
MAXDOUBLE = 1.79769313486231670000e+308
ALMOSTMAX = 1.79769313486231570000e+308
dd        = NaN = 0x00000002 0x7ff00000
ddd       = 1.79769313486231670000e+308 = 0xffffffff 0x7fefffff

From WATCOM C V 8.5e, same machine:
MAXDOUBLE = 1.79769313486231552000e+308
ALMOSTMAX = 1.79769313486231488000e+308
dd        = 1.79769313486231552000e+308 = 0xffffffff 0x7fefffff
ddd       = 1.79769313486231488000e+308 = 0xfffffffb 0x7fefffff
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