From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Cc: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>, Jim Blandy <jimb@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, msnyder@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: RFA: don't try to compare IEEE NaN's
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 23:19:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010607092111.28343D-100000@is>
References: <npiti94fls.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00110.html

On 6 Jun 2001, Jim Blandy wrote:

> The values I chose should have interesting bits throughout the
> mantissa, so we'll notice if they're truncated.

You cannot be sure those bits get intact into the program.