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  • Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 08:49:34 -0700
>From: address@hidden
>Organization: Agency for the Assessment of Application and Technology, 
>Indonesia
>Keywords: 199701280134.SAA07785

Hi Mahally,

> I have tried all other compilers (eg. gnu gcc, /usr/5lib/cc and others),
> and found none of them works, so I returned to the old one. I inserted
> the F notation of the number format
> #define        FLT_EPSILON     1.192092896E-07F  <---- this F
> 
> So I removed it and the nctest says the following OKs
> 
> *** Testing nccreate ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncopen ...          ok ***
> *** Testing ncredef ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncendef ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncclose ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncinquire ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncsync ...          ok ***
> *** Testing ncabort ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimdef ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimid ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncdiminq ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimrename ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncvardef ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarid ...         ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarinq ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarput1 ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarget1 ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarput ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarget ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarputg ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncvargetg ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncrecinq ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncrecput ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncrecget ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarrename ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncattput ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncattinq ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncattget ...        ok ***
> *** Testing ncattcopy ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncattname ...       ok ***
> *** Testing ncattrename ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncattdel ...        ok ***
> *** Testing nctypelen ...       ok ***
> 
> My question is, is F notation a new number format?

No, an "f" or "F" suffix on a floating-point constant in ANSI C
indicates that the constant is not double; the default for a
floating-point constant with no suffix is double.

This notation was added to Standard ANSI C, but is not necessarily
supported by non-ANSI compilers.

It sounds like your change worked fine.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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