Bug?

[Brent Chapman]

earleh at eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:

# It is in general bad practice to apply an equality test to the result
# of a computation.  Instead of
# 	( a == b )
# use
# 	( ( a < b + MINDOUBLE ) && ( a > b - MINDOUBLE ) )
# 
# MINDOUBLE is in <values.h>.

Yeah, _right_.  Nice, clear, concise code there.  Why shouldn't I reasonably
expect the compiler to do this for me?


-Brent
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