average true range

[Joachim Schmitz]

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assert(0);
return sqrt(-1.);
}

What's the sqrt function called for ? And the 0 passed to assert?

The assert(0) will printa a diagnostic and in debug mode abort the program,
the sqrt(-1.) will cause a domain error to happen (errno being set to EDOM)
in production mode (i.e. which NDEBUG being #define-ed)

Bye, Jojo

 

[user923005]

[snip]

   assert(0);
   return sqrt(-1.);
}

 What's the sqrt function called for ? And the 0 passed to assert?

The assert(0) will printa a diagnostic and in debug mode abort the program,
the sqrt(-1.) will cause a domain error to happen (errno being set to EDOM)
in production mode (i.e. which NDEBUG being #define-ed)

To the O.P.:
The purpose of those modifications was to demonstrate a bug in your
program when equal inputs were entered.
E.g., try your original code with 20,20,20 and it does not perform a
correct computation.