1.0e9999999

[Fred Tydeman]

I agree with David Gay's comments on what IEEE-754 requires on numbers
larger than the maximum finite number.  My previous note was explaining
my understanding of the ANSI C interpretation and its requirement of
Euclidean norm rounding.  It appears that there is conflict between
IEEE-754 and the ANSI C interpretation with respect to converting
mathematical values in the range (DBL_MAX,infinity) to machine
representations.
 
These are not IBM's views, these are the personal ones of:
Fred Tydeman, IBM, Austin, Texas (512) 838-3322; fax (512) 838-3484
AIX S/6000 Math library architect & IBM's rep to NCEG (X3J11.1)
Internet: tydemanaibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com    uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!tydeman