From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <9902272143.AA30166@marc.watson.ibm.com> To: "Kevin B. Hendricks" Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com Subject: Re: PowerPC and egcs gurus: Help! egcs PPC Float Min != JCK Float Min In-Reply-To: Message from "Kevin B. Hendricks" of "Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:09:39 EST." Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:43:50 -0500 From: David Edelsohn Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: There seems to be some confusion between FLT_MIN and MINFLOAT. FLT_MIN is the smallest NORMALIZED float = 1.1754943508222875e-38F MINFLOAT is the smallest float (_EXPBASE ** (FMINEXP - 1)) = 1.40129846432481707e-45 I do not know how the JCK actually is testing this, but the PowerPC IEEE single-precision floating point can represent both values and the real minimum depends on what one actually means. float.h FLT_MIN does not have the same meaning as Java Float_Min. David [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]