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Re: [xml] XPath fix



> Apologies if this is a hideous cheat, but...
> The code in trionan always appears to work off the idea that a double is
64
> bits long.
> As the sign is the 64th bit (the one on the left), wouldn't a simple way
of
> checking the sign just be to right shift the value, i.e.
>
> int trio_get_sign(double a) {
>     return a>>63;
> }
>
> I suspect there might be a more scientific way, but this seems to be the
> simplest, and avoids doing three different things depending on the
#defines
> / platform / implementation.
>

Ah. Scratch that idea - doesn't compile, and casting it to a long (or
combination of)
is far too messy / implementation specific. Let's try the scientific method
after
all...
Richard



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