> num is of type Numeric, which is a pointer to struct
> NumericData! So the above should result in some compiler
> warning (in fact it type casts a pointer into a double value
> - and that will give unpredictable results).
>
> Seems that only isnan() is defined as part of Posix. But not
> a definition that can force a NAN. So we have to find a
> portable way to define the value NaN for double and float.
> Does anybody know of such a way?
See my later postings. 0.0/0.0 seems to do it.
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