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Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 13:36:15 +1100
Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
>> (Offlist)

You responded on-list to a private email that was even tagged as
off-list. Please be more careful and courteous.

Anyway, IEEE floating-point makes it pretty clear that any value that
sets the exponent to all-ones and the mantissa to anything other than
all-zeros is a NaN. So an all-ones hex pattern
(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF....) will flood the area with NaNs.

You really don't understand IEEE 754 here.

ChrisA