From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:37:50 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
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Eli said:
> So please try the following two Awk commands on as many Unix/Linux 
> platforms as you can gain access and tell me what do they print:

Solaris:
; uname -a
SunOS juno 5.4 Generic_101945-32 sun4m sparc
; awk 'BEGIN { print log(0), log(-1), log(100) }'
log: SING error
log: DOMAIN error
-3.40282e+38 -3.40282e+38 4.60517
; gawk 'BEGIN { print log(0), log(-1), log(100) }'
gawk: cmd. line:1: warning: log called with negative argument -1
-Inf -Inf 4.60517
; awk 'BEGIN { print exp(0), exp(1000000), exp(0.5) }'
1 3.40282e+38 1.64872
; gawk 'BEGIN { print exp(0), exp(1000000), exp(0.5) }'
gawk: cmd. line:1: warning: exp argument 1e+06 is out of range
1 Inf 1.64872

SunOS 4:
source 424 > uname -a
SunOS mimas 4.1.4 1 sun4m
source 425 > awk 'BEGIN { print log(0), log(-1), log(100) }'
log: SING error
log: DOMAIN error
-Inf NaN 4.60517
source 426 > awk 'BEGIN { print exp(0), exp(1000000), exp(0.5) }'
1 Inf 1.64872


Right,

							MartinS