Re: Total order on floating point numbers

Nick Maclaren wrote:
(snip on bounds checking in C)

In C89, what you did was about the best that could be done; I think
that it is still a conforming implementation in C99, but I wouldn't
be absolutely certain. If you are interested in those of the sordid
details I have looked at, please ask. But this group is the wrong
place.

I used it with arrays of pointers to arrays. I could generate fairly
large data structures with 16 bit compilers. (I had a 7MB OS/2 system
when most people were running DOS in 640K. Windows 1.0 was not out yet.)

It did what I needed done. If they put a segment descriptor cache in
x86 it might even run pretty fast.

-- glen

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