RE: Detecting NaN's in Allegro

See http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/temp/ieee.lisp

For a file that used to work on Solaris, but does not work on (for example)
Allegro on Intel. Something like it might work for AMD64.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:03 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Detecting NaN's in Allegro
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm working with mathematical software in which the
> generation of a NaN should signal a failure.  By
> default, it seems that ACL doesn't trigger a condition
> when a NaN is generated (I expected a
> floating-point-invalid).  Is there a way to either
> turn on signaling or to test whether a variable stores
> a NaN?
> 
> Will