From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>,
Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acid question
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 20:34:08 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.58.0501072032060.10670@malasada.lava.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7359f04905010721411d96535e@mail.gmail.com>
> This at least can be fixed by putting
> res->store.fmt = 'D';
Sure, but I'm really less concerned about the format associated
with the result of the comparison than I am about the fact that
although "a" and "b" show the same value, and "a-b" shows zero,
the "==" operator says they are not the same. (Worse yet, if
I compare "a-b" with zero, it also fails).
> -rob
> > a 0x800529a4
> > b 0x800529a4
> > a - b 0x00000000
> > b - a 0x00000000
> > a == b 0
> > a < b 0x00000001
> > b < a 0x00000000
> > a > b 0
> > b > a 1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-08 6:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-08 3:36 Tim Newsham
2005-01-08 5:41 ` Rob Pike
2005-01-08 6:34 ` Tim Newsham [this message]
2005-01-08 21:46 ` Tim Newsham
2010-07-17 8:33 Skip Tavakkolian
2010-07-17 8:48 ` EBo
2010-07-17 9:19 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-07-17 12:15 ` EBo
2010-07-17 15:00 ` Philippe Anel
2010-07-17 15:56 ` Philippe Anel
2010-07-17 16:46 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-07-17 16:48 ` cinap_lenrek
2010-07-17 17:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-07-17 17:58 ` Philippe Anel
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