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From: Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT epl DOT ericsson DOT se>
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Subject: Re: strto{d,f,ld}, inf and nan patch
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 13:11:37 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <2110-Tue18Mar2003133203+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Mar 18, 2003 01:32:04 PM
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Eli said:
> > Footnote 250 says: "An implementation may use the n-char sequence to determine
> > extra information to be represented in the NaN?s significand."
> 
> This ``may'' language seems to suggest that we could ignore patterns
> that don't produce a NaN, and generate a NaN regardless.  Am I missing
> something?

That is my interpretation. You are not missing anything.


Right,

						MartinS