Re: synApps_5_7 build error on Windows 8.1 x64

[Benjamin Franksen <benjamin.franksen@helmholtz-berlin.de>]

On Monday 01 September 2014 09:57:59 Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> The offending line says:
>
>         ss->timeEntered = INFINITY;
>
> I thought this is standard C? The error message suggests that the C
> compiler implementation (or rather, the standard library that comes
> with it) implements INFINITY as something like 1/0. Do we need an
> extra compiler switch for this compiler? How is this handled in EPICS
> base?

I see now that EPICS base has epicsMath.h and that defines epicsINF. I
will use that instead of INFINITY.

That the M$ compiler cannot compile code that uses a symbol defined in
its own stanadrd library is ... enigmatic.

Cheers
Ben
--
"Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." ― Scott Adams


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