On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:11:28 +0100, Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:23:58 +0100, Anton Khirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:20:22 -0800, Martynas Venckus <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > > Thanks, Anton.
> > > 
> > > You can't do explicit casts as the standard mandates that those macros be
> > > constant expressions.
> > 
> > Using a cast does not prevent it from being a constant expression. In fact 
> > the
> > relevant chapter in the C99 standard (6.6) explicitly mentions casts in this
> > context as permitted.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Moreover, GCC itself exports those exact same values via __DBL_MAX
> > > builtins, which are not double-precision anymore when used.  Please be 
> > > sure
> > > to report this to GCC.
> > >
> > 
> > The value provided by newer gcc versions is explicitly cast to double.
> > $ gcc-4.4 -dM -E - < /dev/null|grep __DBL_MAX__
> > #define __DBL_MAX__ 1.7976931348623157e+308
> > $ gcc-4.8 -dM -E - < /dev/null|grep __DBL_MAX__
> > #define __DBL_MAX__ ((double)1.79769313486231570815e+308L)
> > 
> > So the problem only occurs because the value declared in your header is not
> > treated as double.
> > 
> 
> For the record, I've also discovered the same problem in the musl libc, and
> they fixed it in commit 46db37289f917e23877a0e0df88cbb150805bc97
> http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/?id=46db37289f917e23877a0e0df88cbb150805bc97

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Got any news on this?

-- 
Anton Khirnov
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