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Re: new module 'isnan-nolibm'


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: new module 'isnan-nolibm'
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:03:27 -0700
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According to Eric Blake on 2/24/2007 12:56 PM:
> According to Bruno Haible on 2/24/2007 12:10 PM:
>> But
>> isnan() is available in libm on many systems (AIX, Cygwin, HP-UX, OSF/1,
>> Solaris)
> 
> Correction - on cygwin, libm is a dummy library to merely pacify people
> who insist on using -lm unnecessarily, and isnan is available in libc.

For that matter, isnan() is specified to be a macro, not a function.  On
what platforms does the macro in the system <math.h> truly rely on a libm
function?

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