OpenEuphoria

RE: Uninitialized Variables

• Posted by Andy Serpa <renegade at earthling.net> Mar 24, 2002
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kbochert at ix.netcom.com wrote:
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> Hi Andy Serpa, you wrote on 3/23/02 10:13:12 PM:
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> >> I tried your code and it failed for me -- the 'y'
> >> case came out "non-NaN"
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> >
> >Boy, what a nightmare.
> >
> You sure got that right. My method is useless.
> Have you noticed that real math (IEEE 754) has
> +infinity, -infinity, quiet NaNs, signaling NaNs,
> indeterminates, as well as normalized and
> denormalized numbers!
> Combine that with Eu's 'atoms' which change silently
> from integers to doubles.
> The best solution may be a DLL that knows how to ask the
> floating point processor (nicely) for its secrets.
> 

Been looking for one, but haven't found one that's compiled already.  I 
never get get c source to compile correctly...