From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Spotting NaNs
Date:	Thu, 23 Apr 1998 08:22:04 -0700
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Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> I also noticed neither isnan() nor isnanf() appear to be ANSI or
> POSIX. Are they
> widely supported? Or a Gnu extension? or...?

isnan, isinf, and finite (returns true is the parameter is not +-INF or
NAN) are BSD 4.3 routines.  Unfortunately, neither are ANSI or POSIX,
and there is no standard way to tell whether they are available.

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