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by gnufx 87 days ago
Before isnan() the Fortran test for NaN was (x .ne. x), assuming an IEEE 754 implementation.
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pklausler 87 days ago
I wish that (still) worked reliably, but it can unfortunately get one into trouble with some compilers and some optimization modes that assume that NaNs are undefined behavior.
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