Subject: Re: scanf misses NAN and INF (patch to review)
To: Bill Stouder-Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/04/2007 13:55:27
On Apr 4, 10:45am, wrstuden@netbsd.org (Bill Stouder-Studenmund) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: scanf misses NAN and INF (patch to review)

| > >Can you give me an example where the patch would not be appropriate?
| >
| > There are machines that don't have NaN or Inf like the vax. In that
| > case the input would be "inf" or "nan" and g would print a real number.
| > The patch is fine for machines with "inf" and "nan". I am not sure
| > what the best way is to approach this for machines that don't have
| > "inf" or "nan". Perhaps the code should just not match "inf" and "nan"
| > for machines that don't have them and behave like it does now.
| 
| Well, what do we do now for improperly-formatted numbers? Wouldn't the
| same thing be appropriate?

Right, I think it should not match anything.

christos