Mercurial > hg > octave-nkf > gnulib-hg
view doc/posix-functions/isnan.texi @ 10876:c83dc7e8df57
Refer to new POSIX:2008 standard.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
---|---|
date | Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:38:13 +0100 |
parents | bf763f10f63c |
children | bb0ceefd22dc |
line wrap: on
line source
@node isnan @section @code{isnan} @findex isnan POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isnan.html} Gnulib module: isnan Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item @code{isnan} was introduced with C99 and is thus commonly not present on pre-C99 systems. @item On IRIX 6.5 with @code{cc}, @code{isnan} does not recognize some NaNs. @item On NetBSD/i386 and glibc/ia64, @code{isnan} does not recognize some forms of NaNs, such as pseudo-NaNs, pseudo-Infinities, and unnormalized numbers. @item On i686 and @var{x}86-64, @code{__builtin_isnanl} (and thus @code{isnan} implementations based on it) in GCC 4.0 and later does not recognize pseudo-denormals as NaNs, and similarly for pseudo-zeroes, unnormalized numbers, and pseudo-denormals on ia64. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @end itemize