Regarding INFINITY and NAN:
>>> i note that there are no 32 bit equivalents
>>
>> I think this would be a great feature request (if not code
contribution) -- would you be willing to open a GitHub issue requesting
it, and ideally proposing symbol names / interfaces for accessing these
values?
>
> Yes. But not this week. I am curious at what the discussion was on
the C/C++ standard when they were discussing this when they deliberated
this topic. I will see if I can find anything in their minutes. That
might give us some clues as to the technical/political issues.
Hi, Damian. A member of the Chapel team happens to be the
convener of the C standards committee. That's me. However, somehow I
missed this mailing list until now.
In C, INFINITY and NAN are of float type (usually implemented via
the IEEE 32 bit floating-point type). That was done so that they would
be useful in any larger type as well. No special politics were
involved; it was just easiest to define one symbol that worked in all
floating-point types. The C committee may need to revisit this when the
proposal for "short float" is deliberated.
David
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