Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!dptg!ulysses!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Bug? Message-ID: <9986@alice.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 89 13:08:26 GMT References: <19831@mimsy.UUCP> <15852@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <364@capmkt.COM> <14758@bfmny0.UU.NET> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 12 In article <14758@bfmny0.UU.NET>, tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes: > Specifically, if the C floating point equality operator automatically > corrected for the fuzz factor, how would you write a C program to > test the fuzz factor? Even if the == operator includes a fuzz factor, it's hard to imagine a sensible implementation in which (a-b)==0 is true unless a and b are truly identical. -- --Andrew Koenig ark@europa.att.com