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Subject: Re: Yet another try on nan in strto{f,d,ld}
In-Reply-To: <3EA5B8A9.D78406CD@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> "from Richard Dawe at
 Apr 22, 2003 10:48:25 pm"
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 14:21:06 +0200 (CEST)
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How do you do.

According to Richard Dawe:
> Martin Stromberg wrote:
> > Richard said:
> > > You mean the paragraph about the function returning HUGE_VALL and errno ==
> > > ERANGE, when the number is too big, right? Perhaps we should add that
> > > paragraph, since:
> > >
> > > * we may return HUGE_VALL, etc. at some point in the future;
> > > * the standard specifies that we can return HUGE_VALL, etc.;
> > > * and the programmer using the library should be aware that we can return
> > > HUGE_VALL, etc.
> > 
> > We should yes. But not until the code does so (or vice versa), IMHO.
> [snip]
> 
> BTW why don't we check the range?
> 
> Surely we could check for things like the exponent isn't too big?

Because there are only 24 hours a day?


Right,

						MartinS