Re: [BUG]0/1=?

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:25:46 +0800
KHMan <keinhong@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm trying to work out what causes this, and if it's intentional,
> > why it is desirable.  So far, I've failed.  
> 
> The specification for strtod in IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 says, among 
> other things:
> 
>    * One of INF or INFINITY, ignoring case
> 
> But MSVCRT is not entirely POSIX-compatible, so no big deal, we 
> learn to live with its quirks.

Actually, this isn't a POSIX requirement, it's a ANSI/ISO C requirement.
(ISO/IEC 9899:1999 7.10.1.3.3).

But surely we're talking about the output of printf() and friends, not
the input accepted by strtod()?

B.