Re: UNS: Building natively...

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih%hamartun.priv.no@localhost>]

Brad Parker <brad%heeltoe.com@localhost> writes:

> I think it ended up being that the vax floating point code didn't
> support NaN or something like that.

There is (was?) another of these in awk.  If you made awk read a string
of characters beginning with "nan" (in any combination of upper and
lower case), it would immediately crash, since one of the things awk
keeps doing is checking to see whether what it's got so far might be a
number.

-tih
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