Hello Morten, On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 08:29:08PM -0500, Morten Welinder wrote: > A very minor bug: > > The main body of frexp's man page says the exponent returned is for a > power of two. That agrees with, for example, the C99 standard as well > as https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/math/frexp > > However, the sample program in the man page uses FLT_RADIX. The value > of that macro need not be 2 so the man page should be changed to use 2 > directly. The value of that macro is defined to be 2; it can't have any other value. ISO C defines it in <http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#5.2.4.2.2p11>. POSIX defines it in <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/float.h.html>. Maybe the definition of frexp() by ISO C and POSIX should be changed to define it in terms of FLT_RADIX instead of 2. Have a lovely day, Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.
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