Re: [xml] XPath Infinities

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> 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

And make the lib consistently use these - everywhere where the use is
needed. 

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

> Daniel
>
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