James Giles wrote: > > > And, it returns -1 as the KIND if IEEE is not supported? > The language standard can't mandate that a hardware > standard be supported. > If ieee is not supported, then it should return indeed -1. It does require hardware ieee support. Anyway, to my mind IEEE is not essential in this proposal. What is more important is the selection smallest/fastest. Pierre -- +-----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Pierre Hugonnet | mail....CGG | | | 1, rue Leon Migaux | | R&D Data Processing | 91341 MASSY cedex | | | FRANCE | | COMPAGNIE GENERALE DE GEOPHYSIQUE | phone...(33) 164 47 45 59 | | Paris Processing Centre | fax.....(33) 164 47 32 49 | | http://www.cgg.com | [log in to unmask] | +-----------------------------------+----------------------------+ My opinions are not necessarily those of CGG -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%