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Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:26:26 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT gnu DOT org)" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP 2.05 beta 1
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> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 08:16:36 -0400
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> 
> I tested this with Linux gcc 5.1 and got the same bit patterns for
> both cases:
> 
> typedef struct {
>   unsigned mantissal:32;
>   unsigned mantissah:20;
>   unsigned exponent:11;
>   unsigned sign:1;
> } double_t;
> double   gdm = ((double)1.79769313486231570815e+308L);
> double_t ddm = { 0xffffffffU, 0xfffff, 0x7fe, 0x0 };

But with the one in DJGPP's headers, we are not at the mercy of the
compiler's bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures...