Roland Mainz wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Does Sun Studio (and/or gcc) have a function to extract the payload of a > > |NaN| value ? > > BTW: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaN#Displaying_NaN for the > description of the "payload". The idea is that the IEEE754 format allows > to transport an additional integer value in a NaN value, e.g. a > "payload" of |12345| would be represented as "NaN12345" (in string > form). > > For Sun Studio http://docs.sun.com/source/817-0932/ncg_lib.html#52580 > lists |value = quiet_nanf(0)| to create a |NaN| value but using a > different value than |0| doesn't seem to have any effect. And there > seems to be no function to extract this value from the value of |NaN| > ... ;-(
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