GNU bug report logs - #9612
sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>, 9612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop
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?
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