Re: Question on performance
On 2010-10-19 15:44:11 +0100, N.M. Maclaren wrote:
> This is getting ridiculous. I was on the BSI C panel (i.e. part of WG14)
> for over a decade, including during the standardisation of both C90 and C99.
> I have also supported C compilers for half a dozen architectures by perhaps
> a dozen vendors (and collaborated with several of them).
>
> Your interpretation of the C standards is not unreasonable, but it is NOT
> what was agreed on the WG14 reflector and is NOT how all compiler vendors
> read the standards.
Of course this is wrong since *in practice* isnan() and x != x are
equivalent with GCC on conforming code.
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