On 28 September 2012 07:31, Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:01 AM, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 27 September 2012 17:19, Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:50:08 +0400 Sergei Nikulov
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > SN> So it can be MSVS2010 issue.
>> >
>> >  Microsoft CRT has known issues with converting NaNs and infinities
>> > to/from
>> > strings and behaves differently from most (all?) Unix libc
>> > implementations,
>> > so I'm almost sure it is indeed MSVS-specific. However you can't change
>> > its
>> > CRT behaviour so this still needs to be worked around somehow.
>>
>> Textual representation of NaN value and features like strtod("NAN")
>> are specified by C99 standard. Visual C++ does not implement C99.
>
>
> But that's not what we're talking about here.  What Sergei reported is that
> MSVC sees a very long number (longer than a double can store) in
> std::istringstream's underlying buffer, tries to read a double from this
> stream, and instead of putting the stream in failed state puts inf in the
> double.  I.e., something like
>
>     double x;
>     std::istringstream
> iss("99999999999999999999999912222222222222222222222222223"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333"
>         "9999999999999999999999991222222222222222222222222222333333333333");
>     iss >> x;
>
> With gcc iss.fail() is true after this operation, with MSVC apparently it
> contains infinity.

Aleksander,

I missed the point, indeed.

That is interesting issue, and I also recall it's MSVC-specific.
I always assumed it is related to C99 behaviour of  strtod-like parsing.

Curiosity. I may try to ask MS folks about that.

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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