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Re: RFA: don't try to compare IEEE NaN's
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at zwingli dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: don't try to compare IEEE NaN's
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:21:23 +0300 (IDT)
- cc: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>, Jim Blandy <jimb at cygnus dot com>, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, msnyder at cygnus dot com
On 6 Jun 2001, Jim Blandy wrote:
> The values I chose should have interesting bits throughout the
> mantissa, so we'll notice if they're truncated.
You cannot be sure those bits get intact into the program.