Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c
Date	2020-05-30 15:11 -0700
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> or a floating constant outside the range of its type (the type
>> of a floating constant is determined by its syntax, not by its
>> value),
>
> This is wrong.  The value of a floating constant is always a
> representable value of the constant's type, even if the mathematical
> value of the constant lies outside the range of what the type can
> represent.  See 6.4.4.2, paragraph 3.  There is always a nearest
> representable value, no matter what the mathematical value is.

I believe you're right.

(In one specific implementation, printf("%g\n", 1.0e100000) prints
"inf".  I believe other results are possible.)

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips Healthcare
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Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-05 17:10 +0000
  Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-05 13:41 -0700
    Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-05 22:29 +0000
      Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-05 16:18 -0700
        Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-06 02:33 +0000
          Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-05 20:06 -0700
            Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-06 18:57 +0000
              Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-06 13:37 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2020-05-07 13:48 +0000
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2020-05-07 13:58 +0000
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-05-24 17:36 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2020-05-25 00:56 +0000
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-05-29 22:53 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-07 18:01 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-05-30 10:53 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2020-05-30 15:11 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-05-24 18:19 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-24 20:06 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-06-28 04:51 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-06-28 17:45 -0700
                Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-05-26 07:02 -0700
  Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-05 20:18 -0400
    Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c antispam@math.uni.wroc.pl - 2020-05-06 20:01 +0000
      Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-05-06 18:20 -0400
        Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2020-06-28 04:42 -0700
          Re: longer 'char literals' meaning in c James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2020-06-28 17:13 -0700

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