[RFC] sscanf vs ERANGE vs finitel

Sat Mar 20 16:29:00 GMT 2004

Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de> writes:

> Why bother checking finitel? Is it really possible that sscanf("%Lf")
> doesn't set ERANGE, still !finitel is true??

Yes, Inf and NaN are both in range, but not finite.

Andreas.

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