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Re: infinity != infinity
- From: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- To: amylaar at spamcop dot net, weigand at i1 dot informatik dot uni-erlangen dot de
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, joern dot rennecke at superh dot com, schwab at suse dot de
- Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:31:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: infinity != infinity
> But the question remains, was this derived from his note of the standards
> commitee meetings, or from his personal interpretation of the standard
> (or maybe even his preconception of what it should be) ?
I think the real question here is what hardware does. It is really out
of the question to have a special case test for infinities in comparisons,
so if hardware is consistent, that's probably the operational interpretation
that rules.