[Cfp-interest] NAN(n-char-sequence)

[Jim Thomas]

Sorry, I misunderstood your point. You raised a good question. 

We want strtod to read whatever printf might write, which the correct spec does. strtod allows the form "nan()" which printf doesn’t produce, but a program might produce "nan()" some other way. I suppose we could allow printf to produce "nan()", but I don’t see any value in doing it

- Jim Thomas

> On Oct 23, 2018, at 12:09 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:28:48 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>> We have it optional for printf, required for strtod, which I think is what we want.
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> That is backwards to what I see in C17.
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