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[Fwd: Re: Less than optimally useful gfortran option]
- From: Van Snyder <Van dot Snyder at jpl dot nasa dot gov>
- To: fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:44:32 -0700
- Subject: [Fwd: Re: Less than optimally useful gfortran option]
- Reply-to: Van dot Snyder at jpl dot nasa dot gov
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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.org>
To: Snyder, W Van (3284) <w.van.snyder@jpl.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Less than optimally useful gfortran option
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:07:20 -0700
Van Snyder wrote:
> The -finit-real=NAN is less than optimally useful, because it
> initializes real variables to a quiet NAN. It would be more useful if
> it initialized them to a signaling NAN. Better yet would be to allow
> selecting which kind of NAN is used to initialize real variables, say
> -finit-real=qNAN or -finit-real=sNAN.
I agree - however, I didn't implement this option and its effect.
You are probably better off directing this question straight to
fortran@gcc.gnu.org, where the person who did is certainly listening in ...
Cheers,