On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:43:19AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 26 09:37, Humberto Bortolossi wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm trying to port a C program written originally in > > Linux to the Microsoft Windows plataform. > > > > I've realized that math.h under cygwin doesn't > > define the macro HUGE, that is defined in > > the math.h under linux: > > > > /* Declarations for math functions. > > Copyright (C) 1991-1993,1995-1999,2001,2002 Free Software Foundation, > > Inc. > > This file is part of the GNU C Library. > > */ > > /* SVID mode specifies returning this large value instead of infinity. */ > > # define HUGE 3.40282347e+38F > > > > I thought math.h should be quite portable ... > > HUGE is not portable. It's not defined in the standard, see > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/math.h.html > Use HUGE_VAL instead.
Or maybe he wants MAXFLOAT (largest finite value representable in smallest size float). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
