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| [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gabriel Dos Reis
| Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 9:22 AM
| To: Boost mailing list
| Subject: Re: [boost] Re: Re: is_nan
|
| | And can anyone help with allowing one to easily customise the
| display of NaNs?(and infs, max, min...?)
| | I believe that a new (derived) num_put facet is the way
| | to do this.
| Does anyone have an actual implementation of this to contribute too?
|
| I'm willing to volunteer but I'm not sure I really understand the
| question. Can you elaborate a little bit?
|
| -- Gaby
If you 'show' a qNaN (or indeed an sNaN) with MSVC, you get
cout << "The quiet NaN for type float is: "
<< numeric_limits<float>::quiet_NaN( )
<< endl;
Output:
The quiet NaN for type float is: 1.#QNAN
But suppose you want to display another message instead, perhaps to output data
for input by some other system that recognizes all qNaNs as, say, "NaN", so the
output would be
The quiet NaN for type float is: NaN
AND would be portable for all platforms, of course.
Similarly for infs, max, min - if you get floating point inf, max or min as a
result of a calculation, it should be shown as special to the reader?
Paul
PS IMHO This is more important than it may appear because it, with the lack of a
Standard isnan test, is preventing real-life use of NaNs.
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