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From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: min, max and nans
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 10:17:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d6hgw5wh.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87d6ih5okm.fsf@zagadka.ping.de

I notice C99 fmin and fmax return the other operand when one is a NaN,
and return NaN only when both are NaNs.

I tend to think of nan as indicating something evil, and it should be
propagated.  But the c99 way would be a possibility to consider.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-06-15  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05 23:26 min, max and nans Kevin Ryde
2003-05-17 20:02 ` Marius Vollmer
2003-05-30  0:20   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-06-04 16:08     ` Kevin Ryde
2003-06-05 12:48       ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-06 16:03         ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-06-06 23:17           ` Marius Vollmer
2003-06-15  0:17   ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2003-06-18 23:36     ` Marius Vollmer

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