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Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:09:45 +0100 (MET)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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On 11 Jan 2001, Morten Welinder wrote:

> 
> >From Solaris man page (a generally very good source):
> 
>      If x is NaN, NaN is returned.
> 
>      If x is less than 0, -HUGE_VAL or NaN is returned and  errno
>      is set to EDOM.

But it does not seem to tell when it will return -HUGE_VAL, and when NaN,
does it?

Neither does the cited excerpt mention what part of this is directed by
which external standard (ANSI, POSIX, X/Open, whatever).

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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