Re: [boost] Optimized portable isnan, isfinite, fpclassify etc

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-06 10:37:04

Markus Schöpflin wrote:
> Johan Råde wrote:

>> Your processor is a bit odd!
>> It does not have denorms, inifinity and NaN,
>> except that long double does have denorms.
>> (Look at min/2 and min/256 in the output from the inspect tool.)

> It might be the case the the compiler has something to do with this, but I 
> can't say for sure.

long double often causes trouble.
I estimate that I have spent 90% of the development time for this 
library on getting long double to work. ;-)

--Johan