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Re: not-a-number's

On 01/16/2013 11:54 AM, Mischa Baars wrote:
>> Here's what Standard C, F.8.3 Relational operators, says:
>> >
>> >   x != x â false	            The statement x != x is true if x is a NaN.
>> >
>> >   x == x â true              The statement x == x is false if x is a NaN.
>
> And indeed apparently the answer then is '2'. However, I don't think 
> this is correct. If that means that there is an error in the C 
> specification, then there probably is an error in the specification.

Right.  So we are agreed that GCC does what the specification of
the C programming language says it must do.  Any argument that you
have must, therefore, be with the technical committee of ISO C, not
with us.

Andrew.
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