Operations on Inf/NaN

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

Folks,

Regarding this ticket: http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/370

The problem is not with rounding Inf or NaN. Instead, the problem concerns converting Inf/NaN to an integer. The C reference states:

"The behavior of the conversion [from floating-point to integer] is undefined if the floating-point value cannot be represented even approximately in the new type ..."

I recommend we follow the C standard and leave the conversion undefined. I don't think we want to get into the business of specifying how to convert Inf or NaN to an integer.

Thoughts?

~~ Paul

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