unnormal Intel 80-bit long doubles and isnanl
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Nov 27 11:31:35 GMT 2020
* Joseph Myers:
> glibc effectively treats them as unspecified behavior - we don't expect
> them to produce any particular meaningful function return value (this
> includes the possibility that such an invalid encoding might be returned
> by a function given such an encoding as input), but if they result in
> buffer overflows, infinite loops or similar, that's fixed as a bug.
I think the last part (the “bug”) is new. I welcome a consensus along
those lines. I just want to highlight this aspect.
Thanks,
Florian
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