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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen \(garbage mail\)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
To: "ML CygWIN" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: OT? Legacy code and constants / good and portable coding  (RE: Compiling Wine in Cygwin)
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 12:25:07 +0200
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> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT 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.
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/math.h.html>
>
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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 MAXFLOAT is outdated.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 Is there ANY good reading on what is legacy/outdated - and what isn't!?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
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