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Date:      Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:11:58 +0000
From:      Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
To:        Igor Mozolevsky <mozolevsky@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: comparing floating points via "==" or "!="
Message-ID:  <20111201001158.GA48051@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CADWvR2irEU0ANHNG4mvC1voVP6Y3YMTQxs5d35o5SbBTJ8JyfQ@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20111130224422.GA36424@freebsd.org> <CADWvR2herXkcMaZXFKm_ALBXnVFDhRCNZ-9%2B-MwHVx5XJPG4AA@mail.gmail.com> <20111201000243.GB44877@freebsd.org> <CADWvR2irEU0ANHNG4mvC1voVP6Y3YMTQxs5d35o5SbBTJ8JyfQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu Dec  1 11, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> On 1 December 2011 00:02, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Wed Nov 30 11, Igor Mozolevsky wrote:
> >> On 30 November 2011 22:44, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > i played a bit with the gcc -Wfloat-equal warning and noticed that inside
> >> > sys/dev/ath/ath_rate/sample/tx_schedules.h, a lot of comparisons of floating
> >> > points are happening ("=="). is there a better way to deal with this?
> >>
> >> as opposed to (abs(a-b) < tolerance)?
> >
> > fabs(3) actually, or some other way, e.g. described in:
> 
> I thought from the context it was fairly clear that the appropriate
> XabsY variant had to be used without me being unnecessarily verbose in
> mentioning fabs(), and its fabsl() and fabsf() friends?..

i sorry. since sys/dev/ath/ath_rate/sample/tx_schedules.h also handles a lot
of integer values, i thought you referred to abs(3), because you saw also
some issues with the integer computations in that file. so i thought you were
referring to yet another issue in that file.

cheers.
alex

> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Igor ;-)



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