Re: [PATCH] Fix hpux10 string to real conversion defficiences

[Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at frontier dot com>]

On 03/12/2011 08:01 AM, John David Anglin wrote:
> > I have reviewed the patch and FX'scomments.  So far so good.
> >
> > I may have missed something in the thread, but are you planning
> > modifications to the functions that call convert_real to allow the nan
> > or inf strings to be passed to convert_real?
> >
> > The read_real function is already handling this for namelist and list
> > directed reads and I believe it is not needed by convert_real for those
> > functions.
> >
> > For formatted reads, read_f will error out on a nan or inf during the
> > read before calling convert_real.
>
> Here is take three.  The configure checks are eliminated and a new
> function, convert_infnan, is added to convert INFs and NANs using
> builtins.  It relies to some extent on the processing done by read_f,
> parse_real and read_real.
>
> Tested on hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20, hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11, hppa64-hp-hpux11.11
> and i686-apple-darwin9 with no observed regressions.
>
> Ok?

This is very intrusive this close to 4.6 release.  With that said, I would like 
to regression test a few more different platforms.  I will start on mine here 
shortly.

Regards,

Jerry