Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Mon, 1 Sep 2014 10:17:25 +0200

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." â€• Scott Adams

________________________________

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH

Mitglied der Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V.

Aufsichtsrat: Vorsitzender Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Joachim Treusch, stv. Vorsitzende Dr. Beatrix Vierkorn-Rudolph
Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Anke Rita Kaysser-Pyzalla, Thomas Frederking

Sitz Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, 89 HRB 5583

Postadresse:
Hahn-Meitner-Platz 1
D-14109 Berlin

http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System