From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: don't try to compare IEEE NaN's
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 13:59:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B1E99AF.C627F886@cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00095.html

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> Jim Blandy wrote:
> >
> > I think assigning a floating-point constant, which is clearly within
> > the range of the type, is the most portable way to get a real
> > floating-point value into the variable.  The values I chose should
> > have interesting bits throughout the mantissa, so we'll notice if
> > they're truncated.
> >
> > So I still think the patch I posted is okay.
> 
> OK.  Just update the comments to reflect what was discussed here (if
> needed) and I am happy.
> 
> Eli and Michael, do you still object to this change?

I never did object to it.  I think Jim's basically on the right track.