Squelch HOST_FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:55:30AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> float qnan = __builtin_nanf(0);

0 is not a valid argument.  "0" is.

> Incidentally, why is the argument to __builtin_nan a string constant?

Becuase that's how the nan(3) function works.

> (And the syntax that I would have chosen for this is something like
> 
>    0x1.0p+INF
>    0x1.xxxxxxp+NAN (QNAN, SNAN)
> 
> which would require less fragile special-casing of builtin functions, etc.)

Doesn't that run afoul of p-numbers etc?


r~