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Subject: Re: Re: [ast-users] Sign of floating-point zero...
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> Is there a reason why ksh93 does not display the negative sign for the
> value zero ? For example if I have use the C99 function "copysign"
> (copies absolute value of operant a and sign of operant b) I get this
> for { a=5, b=-0 }:
> -- snip --
> $ ksh93 -c 'float x; (( x=copysign(5, -0) )) ; printf "%f\n"
> x'
> -5.000000
> -- snip --
>
> Now if I swap operands a and b I get this result:
> -- snip --
> $ ksh93 -c 'float x; (( x=copysign(0, -5) )) ; printf "%f\n"
> x'
> 0.000000
> -- snip --
This has been fixed for the next update.
David Korn
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