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- Subject: Re: io_date
- From: Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 23:15:12 +0100 (BST)
On Wed 30 Apr, D Burgess wrote:
>
> What is your platform?
RiscPC RISC OS 4.02 (STRONGARM CPU) and
Iyonix RISC OS 5.02 (INTEL 80321 CPU)
with Norcroft C compiler.
> and what exception, SIGFPE?
Yes
> I had a problem with OS400 throwing an exception on
> floating point to int assignment.
> e.g. int n = (double)d;
> I think your change is wrong because there is no
> guarantee that you will have an integer value on
> the LHS of (n == -1).
It will not be an integer, it will be a double, (Lua_Number
is a double on my system), and the compiler will type -1 as a
double accordingly. Actually, I use
t = (time_t) fabs(n);
rather than t = (time_t) n; because I am worried that other
negative values might cause similar mayhem.
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Gavin Wraith (gavin@wraith.u-net.com)
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