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"Denison, PN \(Peter\)" <[email protected]> · Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:39:04 -0000

> Subject: epicsTime.cpp Strangeness
> 
> I'm having a little trouble using epicsTimeDiffInSeconds(). 
> src/libCom/osi/epicsTime.cpp:970 in R3.14.9
> ...
> function to return -DBL_MAX. 2) Somehow the vxWorks compiler 
> (gcc 2.96) is failing to represent DBL_MAX properly.
> 

Mea culpa - sorry, I've been an idiot (for part of the above). I was
using logMsg to print out the values, assuming it worked like printf. Of
course, it doesn't, as its arguments are all integers.

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