Subject: bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:11:33 -0700

On 09/27/11 13:07, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Padding bits can change any time.

Is there any way to compare the non-padding parts of long doubles?
There ought to be *some* way to get the fractional part of a NaN, no?
For example, with glibc, is there some way to sprintf to a buffer
and get the fraction out of the text in the buffer?