RE: Precision of doubles and stdio

x <= 70.905684341886080801486968994140625 DOES imply x <= 70.90568434188608080148696899414 AND vice-versa! Even in 64 bits IEEE 754 the representations of the 2 numbers are identical. Anything beyond the 34th decimal digit is made up by the printf implementation, i.e. it' sn

RE: empty directory globbing in bash/sh for loops

I've already asked the IT dept over here to remove it. In the meantime I was hoping people would just ignore it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor Sent: 02 March 2006 14:16 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: empty directory

empty directory globbing in bash/sh for loops

In the Cygwin bash the following statement for file in ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* ; do do_it_on $file ; done executes the following once because of how globbing is done. do_it_on ./SOME_EMPTY_DIR/* Unfortunately the gcc 4.0.2 makefiles do use this on possibly empty directories and break. Does anybody