Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:10:20 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP reserves wrong int size In-Reply-To: <3b4a06b8.44792404@news.primus.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Graaagh the Mighty wrote: > >>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. How about ``more politely'', for starters? > 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. Given the absence of any code, that's the best I could do.