[Cfp-interest] printf, NaN, infinity

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 08:27:15 -0800 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>Is this proposal at the request of WG14? If so, what exactly was requested?

Not exactly.  Martin Sebor presented a paper showing that the output
of the form NaN(chars) is unbounded, so is a security problem.  He
presented an idea on how to limit that output.  The committee did not
like his idea.  So, I decided to come up with my own solution.



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