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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:13:20 +0200

Jim Meyering <[email-masked]> writes:

> The statement "long double x = NAN;" (inside glibc's strtold) leaves many
> bits of "x" uninitialized.

You are looking at padding bits, which have unspecified contents.

Andreas.

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