trapping NaN

Article View: comp.sys.next.programmer

Article #1871

Back to comp.sys.next.programmer Previous Next

#1871

From: J. G. Gregory
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:10

6 lines
555 bytes

I would like to trap NaN -- the "not a number" condition that floating point  
values can take.  I can't find any clue on how to do this, except some cryptic  
stuff in the man pages under "math".  Is there some signal I can handle?

Thanks in advance.
--J Gregory

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1992Nov20.221038.1170@proforma.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!proforma!jgg

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!proforma!jgg
From: jgg@proforma.com (J. G. Gregory)
Subject: trapping NaN
Message-ID: <1992Nov20.221038.1170@proforma.com>
Sender: jgg@proforma.com
Organization: Pro Forma
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:10:38 GMT
Lines: 6