Re: [Chicken-users] llvm-gcc / clang

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 04:16:21PM +0100, Thomas Chust wrote:
> what about using
> 
>   #include <math.h>
>   [...]
>   if (isnan(x)) ...
> 
> or maybe
> 
>   [...]
>   if (fpclassify(x) == FP_NAN) ...
> 
> instead of a comparison? I would expect the compiler to inline these
> calls and produce equally efficient code as for a comparison operation
> and it might be a bit more portable to do it this way.

This looks nice.  I didn't know about those.  When I looked it up, it
said that both are C99, which leads me to the question: do we have an
"official" standpoint about what C level Chicken needs?

Cheers,
Peter
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