Terry Reedy wrote:
On my Windows machine with 2.2.1, I get exactly what you expected:
1e10000
1.#INF
...
If you get wrong behavior on a later version, then a bug has been
introduced somewhere, even perhaps in VC 7, used for 2.4.
Nope, it is also there for 2.3.4 (May 25 2004, 21:17:02). This is not
necessarily a bug in the sense of a fixable bug; floating point has
vagaries that are not necessarily easily controllable from the C source
side.
--Scott David Daniels
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