SunOS 4.0 frexp() bug
Root Boy Jim
rbj at uunet.UU.NET
Fri Dec 14 15:57:17 AEST 1990
In article <14671 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>One wonders how frexp() could possibly have passed its pre-release
>tests..
Probably because nobody cares. TFM sez:
DESCRIPTION
These functions are provided for compatibility with other
UNIX system implementations. They are not used internally
in libm or libc. Better ways to accomplish similar ends may
be found in ieee_functions(3M) and rint(3M).
But of course, as we all know, all numbers are integers, and they
are the same size as pointers :-)
In fact, my interpreter based editor says that they are only 24 bits long :-)
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Root Boy Jim Cottrell <rbj at uunet.uu.net>
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