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Re: Should nanl(0) crash?
- From: Robert Love <rml at ximian dot com>
- To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:38:00 -0400
- Subject: Re: Should nanl(0) crash?
- References: <E1BoTen-0007CE-SF@saruman.uio.no>
On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 23:02 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> This code compile, run and print 0 on Tru64 Unix. On Linux, it
> crashes with a segfault. Is it legal to call nanl(0)? I tried
> checking the C standard, but that didn't make me wiser. :(
While it probably makes sense for nanl(0) not to crash, the argument's
behavior is "unspecified" so this is probably within the realm of
standards conformance.
Robert Love