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From Thomas G. Lockhart
Subject Re: [HACKERS] NAN code
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] NAN code  (jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
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>     While  searching for the NAN definition I've noticed too that
>     our float4/float8 datatypes can  output  'NaN',  but  do  not
>     parse  them back.

Yeah, I just noticed that a few minutes ago too.

I've got some patches which fix this, at least for machines with NaN
support (and for HUGE_VAL/Infinity too). We'll need some more code to
handle non-IEEE machines...
                   - Tom

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