Date:	Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:42:41 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Unnormals???
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> > This is not the part of the standard I was worried about.  C89 explicitly 
> > required math functions not to crash, but to set errno instead.  What 
> > does C99 say about that?
> 
>        7.12.1  Treatment of error conditions
> 
>        [#1]  The  behavior  of each of the functions in <math.h> is
>        specified  for  all  representable  values  of   its   input
>        arguments, except where stated otherwise.

The problem is not with NaNs as arguments, it's with finite arguments
which cause an Invalid Operation exception.  I don't think the above
quotation takes care of that case.

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