Re: Building with Visual C++

From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Building with Visual C++
Date: 2006-04-24 07:40:23
Message-ID: 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA352E5@algol.sollentuna.se
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> > *) Change where NaN is generated. Using 0.0/0.0 doesn't
> work in VC++
> > because it detects it as a divide-by-zero at the compile stage.
>
> If they're going to be that anally uncooperative, why don't
> they have the required-by-C99-spec macro for NAN? Or at
> least some well-defined way to generate a NaN?

They do have one way that's documented on MSDN, which is:
unsigned long nan[2]={0xffffffff, 0x7fffffff};
double g = *( double* )nan;

I thought that was even uglier ;-), but I can change it to use that on
win32 if you prefer it?

//Magnus

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