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>

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 9612 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9612: sort: avoid a NaN-induced infloop
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:13:20 +0200

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> 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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