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I just fount out that most of machines provide standard macros
handling "floating-point comparison"
such as "isgreater()", "isgreaterequal()"...

Thx.

-S

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:09:41 +0000 (UTC)
(Sooha Park Lee) wrote:

> I just fount out that most of machines provide standard macros
> handling "floating-point comparison"
> such as "isgreater()", "isgreaterequal()"...

Strange that of the two compilers I've got that only one defines it
then...

They are also not mentioned in K&R2 so I doubt that they are part of the
C90 standard which is what most implementations provide.
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Mark Gordon <> wrote in message news:<>...
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:09:41 +0000 (UTC)
> (Sooha Park Lee) wrote:
>
> > I just fount out that most of machines provide standard macros
> > handling "floating-point comparison"
> > such as "isgreater()", "isgreaterequal()"...
>
> Strange that of the two compilers I've got that only one defines it
> then...
>
> They are also not mentioned in K&R2 so I doubt that they are part of the
> C90 standard which is what most implementations provide.

Those aren't, in fact, part of C90, but are in C99's features to
support IEEE arithmetic. Anyway, the macros are intended to perform
comparisons without raising floating point exceptions (in case one of
the arguments is a NaN) and have nothing to do with handling of
rounding errors.