[PATCH] Fix hpux10 string to real conversion defficiences

[Jerry DeLisle]

On 03/12/2011 02:04 PM, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> 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.
>

Tested successful on x86-64 at -m64 and -m32.  I will say OK, but you may want 
to check with release manager.  I have not heard if we are in Freeze yet.

Jerry