[Cfp-interest 2333] nan("1111111111111111111111....")

[Fred J. Tydeman]

F.10.8.2 The nan functions has:
2 The returned value is exact and is independent of the current rounding direction mode.

I read that as meaning no floating-point exceptions are raised by the nan() function.
However, I have found that (at least) glibc raises FP_INVALID if the string passed
to nan() has lots of valid characters.  Is that a bug in glibc?


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