Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:15:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> We can load any NaN we like into an FPU register, be it real indefinite or
> whatever.

In assembly, yes.  That's what Eric Rudd did all the way in his math 
functions, so we *know* it's possible.

But I was thinking about C, not about assembly.

In other words what I wanted to say is that this is tricky, not that it's 
impossible.