On 12/3/08, David Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
Thank you.
Irek
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