Squelch HOST_FLOAT_WORDS_BIG_ENDIAN

Thu Mar 13 23:01:00 GMT 2003

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 12:41:25PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >> 0x1.0p+INF
> >> 0x1.xxxxxxp+NAN (QNAN, SNAN)
> >> 
> >> which would require less fragile special-casing of builtin functions, etc.)
> >
> > Doesn't that run afoul of p-numbers etc?
>> No. Arbitrary sequences of identifier-nondigits may appear at any
> position in a pp-number except immediately before [+-] (where [eEpP]
> is required). See C99 6.4.8p1,2.

Hmm. Well, there's still time to change our minds here. GCC 3.3 has
not yet been released, so there is no release that promises __builtin_inf
et al will be evaluable in a constant context...
Do folks think the proposal above is a good idea? Mark, I know you
balked at the builtin function thing before...
r~