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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:17:11 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Difficulty with long double
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Hello.

Juan Manuel Guerrero wrote:
[snip]
>   long double a=1.0e309;
[snip]

Here's what C99 says about suffixes and long double values in section 6.4.4.2,
part 4 (page 58 of the PDF):

"An unsuffixed floating constant has type double. If suffixed by the letter f
or F,it has 
type float. If suffixed by the letter l or L, it has type long double."

So your code should probably be like this:

    long double a=1.0e309L;

Bye, Rich =]

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Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]