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<TITLE>RE: [LCP]Detecting overflow of floating point calculations</TITLE>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> I know that I know that if a floating point number is larger</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> than the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> maximum value it can hold, the printf() family of functions</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> will print</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> "inf", at least with gcc, so printing to a string with </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I don't know how portable they are (don't have my linux box</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>atm), but lookup finite and isnan (libc routines).</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-- </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Vincent Penquerc'h </FONT>
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