[PATCH] Remove misleading statement about raising of FE_INVALID (bug 24078)
Joseph Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Jan 9 21:20:00 GMT 2019
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
> See bugzilla entry for a longer description.
>
> -- 8< --
> In the floating-point comparisons `==' and `<', there is no difference
> in behavior when it comes to the raising of FE_INVALID exceptions. This
> patch removes, from the manual, a sentence that states otherwise.
This change is incorrect. == and != do not raise exceptions except for
signaling NaNs; ordered comparisons raise exceptions for both quiet and
signaling NaNs (you can use the is* macros from C99 to avoid exceptions
for quiet NaNs for ordered comparisons, and iseqsig from TS 18661-1 to get
exceptions for quiet NaNs for equality comparisons).
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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