From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] float.h
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:51:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A1652BBE-DD81-4A09-905F-D72259976F5A@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080805234021.947DD1E8C47@holo.morphisms.net>
On Aug 5, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
>> Hello. Is there an alternative to the macros in this header? My
>> program uses some of them (DBL_MIN, DBL_MAX, DBL_EPSILON), and
>> including <ape/float.h> yields name clashes. Thanks.
>
> Why not change your program not to use
> standard names for its own purposes?
>
> Russ
>
>
In this case, "its own purposes" == "allowing the user to choose that
as a parameter to an expression."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-06 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 19:07 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-05 23:43 ` Russ Cox
2008-08-06 2:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-08-06 3:14 ` ron minnich
2008-08-06 3:22 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-06 8:06 ` Charles Forsyth
2008-08-06 12:43 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-06 12:59 ` erik quanstrom
2008-08-06 16:29 ` Greg Comeau
2008-08-07 18:24 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-08-07 19:49 ` Federico G. Benavento
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