[GRASS5] Win32 compile with cygnus

Justin Hickey jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
Mon Nov 20 03:13:49 EST 2000


Andreas Lange wrote:
> Eric G . Miller wrote:
> > > > For the float.h: does this introduce problems on other systems?
> > > > maybe a #ifdef __CYGWIN__ would be better.
> > > I don't think this ifdef is required. I had to add it to r.in.dem
> > > as well (for MacOS). The Linux likes it, too. It's present on
> > > SUN/Solaris. On CRAY it is o.k., too. What about SGI?
> >
> > What's the problem with float.h?  I know I've used it in a couple
> > places for DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX and friends (not in limits.h).  I
> > thought this was a standard header ???

Yes, it is a standard header, since it appears in the standard library
listed in Appendix B of "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan and
Ritchie. There should be no problems using it.

> We discussed this some time ago on this list. But i can't memorize the
> result. I faintly remember problems with the BSD flavours. There must
> be a reason why Huidae Cho didn't include float.h i assume.

I don't recall this discussion, can anyone remember what the problem
was? Is BSD using a non-standard float.h file?

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Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
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