Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> I could reformulate my question to: "Is there a way to produce a (quiet)
> NaN that won't occur as a result of the C library functions?"
There are 2^51 possible quiet NaNs [1]. I would guess that the hardware and
libc functions produce only a small portion of this s
Hi Bruno,
thanks for replying so quickly!
My intention is neither to feed the signaling NaN into floating-point
operations nor to cause it an exception to be raised. What I really want
to do is to model a type whose value is either a floating-point number
(including infinities and the NaNs retur
Hi Marc,
> I have been searching through the list of modules but haven't been able to
> find it: Does Gnulib offer a way to store a signaling NaN in a memory
> location (if supported by the platform)
It doesn't, because quiet NaNs are easier to work with.
> The forthcoming C2x standard will hav
