Re: [xml] XPath Infinities

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 03:08:42PM +0000, Bjorn Reese wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> >   this whole issue is a huge mess ...
>
> Indeed. We ought to extract all the NaN and Inf stuff into a separate file.

  What are needed for XPath are portable implementations of:
    - isnan()
    - isinf()
    - initialization routine to get a +INF a -INF and a NAN

all this according to the IEEE 754 standard and the available implementation
for the C double type.

> I have attached two small patches for libxml. Unfortunately, I have not
> tested them myself as I don't have access to the GNOME CVS from the Alpha
> machine. Could somebody check them out, and report whether they work or not?
> If possible, I would like to hear if they work with both GCC and the vendor
> CC.

Okay I commited them, maybe we will get the answer at the next release :-\

Daniel

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