From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size Organization: Low Charisma Anonymous Message-ID: <3b4a06b8.44792404@news.primus.ca> References: <9dde68b7 DOT 0106241053 DOT 2a385311 AT posting DOT google DOT com> <200106242138 DOT RAA18013 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <3b37e92e DOT 288745911 AT news DOT primus DOT ca> <200106260242 DOT WAA00615 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <3b3b4e40 DOT 213415946 AT news DOT primus DOT ca> <6480-Fri29Jun2001102012+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <3b3d95b2 DOT 362800381 AT news DOT primus DOT ca> <7704-Sat30Jun2001163109+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <3b4348be DOT 81254401 AT news DOT primus DOT ca> <2950-Wed04Jul2001203020+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> <3b4372cf DOT 92024930 AT news DOT primus DOT ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 22 Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 19:33:20 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.176.153.143 X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca X-Trace: news1.tor.primus.ca 994707019 207.176.153.143 (Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:30:19 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:30:19 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >>Now please stop spouting your "numerical wisdom" and give some real, >>usable information about what might cause what was observed, given >>that all I did was assign some numbers to some doubles/long doubles >>and perform a few arithmetic operations on them -- not even inside of >>a loop. > >I can't speak for Eli, but you sure have a strange way of asking for >help. I don't know how Eli will respond but I'm not interested in >doing your homework. The "numerical wisdom" is the result of some very >serious study by people who aren't afraid of "bucky bits". My complaint should have been stated more clearly I suppose. Specifically, he was being extremely vague, not offering any kind of guidance other than the vague implication that there was *something* the matter with my code. -- Bill Gates: "No computer will ever need more than 640K of RAM." -- 1980 "There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980 "This antitrust thing will blow over." -- 1998 Combine neo, an underscore, and one thousand sixty-one to make my hotmail addy.