Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" To: "ML CygWIN" Subject: OT? Legacy code and constants / good and portable coding (RE: Compiling Wine in Cygwin) Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:25:07 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20030905202013.GA2305@aragorn.etc.sk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf > Of Marcel Telka > On 05.09.2003 22:06, Gregory Nutt wrote: > > Trying to compile wine-20030813 in the first release of the 1.5.x > > series. > > > > I discovered that shader.c is looking for -HUGE which is apparently > > supposed to be defined in math.h. I was able to make it compile by > > changing the shader.c to look for -HUGE_VAL which is defined in > > cygwin's math.h. However, I'd like to know if this is a bug to report > > to Wine or a bug to report to Cygwin. Since Wine compiles on Linux > > without a problem, I thought I'd start with Cygwin. > > IMHO, that is wine-related problem. > > -- Ughhh... I wonder who it was that wrote: > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > > HUGE is a SVID-specific value that is equal to MAXFLOAT on my RedHat 7.3 > > box. That is *not* the same as HUGE_VAL, BTW, so I'd use MAXFLOAT > > instead. > > > > MAXFLOAT is outdated. I would suggest FLT_MAX in float.h. As there seems to some confusion regarding this: Thus I wonder; Is there ANY good reading on what is legacy/outdated - and what isn't!? /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59°16.37'N, 17°12.60'E --END OF MESSAGE-- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/