From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 11:31:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3197F37B401; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:31:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B5E43F75; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:31:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd09.sul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 190NdD-0008Ei-0C; Tue, 01 Apr 2003 17:24:59 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (520065502893-0001@[217.83.31.216]) by fmrl09.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 190Ncy-0AbTw8C; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:24:44 +0200 Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (Magelan [192.168.1.1]) h31FOgOq093313; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:24:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magelan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with SMTP id h31FOe4N080941; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:24:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:24:40 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Peter Jeremy Message-Id: <20030401172440.701aaafd.Alexander@Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <20030331082023.GE11307@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <200303272038.h2RKcM7L096560@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030327204935.GA18134@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030330175646.281097ad.Alexander@Leidinger.net> <20030331082023.GE11307@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 520065502893-0001@t-dialin.net cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org cc: src-committers@freebsd.org cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/include float.h X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 19:31:06 -0000 On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:20:23 +1000 Peter Jeremy wrote: > It's not clear exactly what this program is intended to test. We noticed that icc does use other values for LDBL_MIN than we do, and instead of just thinking that Intel does it right I wanted to verify it. So I started with tests for float and double. > > The *_MIN > >values (or my test program) at least on i386 machines are wrong. > > The *_MIN values represent the greatest negative value, not the > smallest positive value. *_MIN _is_ the smallest positive value... but the normalized one, not the denormalized one I use. So yes, my program was wrong, but in another way than you suggested. But I have to still say "thank you", your comment resulted in rereading the (hopefully) appropriate docs and noticing the "normalized" in them. Thank you, Alexander. -- 0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that? http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7