Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:28:08 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: strtof & HUGE_VALF [PATCH]
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> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:44:46 +0000
> From: "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> In strtof I added an extra flag to indicate overflow, to avoid
> any floating-point comparisons in the overflow case, where we return
> HUGE_VALF. Perhaps we could store HUGE_VALF in a "long double",
> but I wasn't sure whether:
> 
>     (float)(long double) HUGE_VALF == HUGE_VALF
> 
> OK to commit?

Yes, it looks fine.