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: John Reiser <jreiser <at> bitwagon.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:54:38 -0700

> 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?

frexp() [man 3 frexp] would be the right idea,
except that it fails explicitly for NaN.

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