From: Ertugrul Soeylemez <never@drwxr-xr-x.org>
To: gentoo-science@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-science] question about signbit
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:27:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051028022727.336eaff7@kill.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510271524.54132.mjsb@ramses.inesc-id.pt>
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Miguel Barao <mjsb@ramses.inesc-id.pt> (Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:24:54 +0100):
> The answer is in 'man signbit'.
>
> signbit is probably just ANDing your float value with 2^31=0x80000000 which
> reads -2147483648 if considered as a signed int (like in your printf).
Yes. The manpage doesn't say it returns 1, but it returns non-zero.
-2147483648 is non-zero. You need to check if the value is !0, not if
the value is 1. By the way, this holds for many boolean functions.
Regards.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-22 18:16 [gentoo-science] question about signbit Darren Dale
2005-10-22 21:05 ` Marco Matthies
2005-10-22 21:32 ` Darren Dale
2005-10-22 21:39 ` Marco Matthies
2005-10-27 12:52 ` Darren Dale
2005-10-27 14:24 ` Miguel Barao
2005-10-28 0:27 ` Ertugrul Soeylemez [this message]
2005-10-28 15:40 ` Marco Matthies
2005-10-28 16:00 ` Darren Dale
2005-10-23 6:39 ` Ertugrul Soeylemez
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