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Refer to new POSIX:2008 standard.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:38:13 +0100
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@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