Dynamic loading of Xalan library on Solaris

[thomas . cherel]

Title: Message

I was just curious to know if anyone knows if the issue below has been fixed in the latest XalanC version or with a specific Solaris patch (since it is really a Solaris problem at the end of the day). The issue is a message (square root of negative number) printed on stderr at XalanC library initialization time. I did a few searches in the XalanC bug database without any success. Here is the last comment from Dave Bertoni on the subject, exchanged end of 2002: Well, that is a problem with the Xalan library, although it's really an underlying bug in Sun's run-time. Xalan uses the sqrt() function to determine the value of NaN when it starts up by calling the function with a negative number.  This is supposed to fail silently and return the correct number according to the ANSI standard. We have a similar problem on AIX which was fixed in the 1.4 release. Unfortunately, nobody has ever reported the problem on Solaris, so I didn't think it was a problem. Thanks   Thomas