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		cwzwarich on Feb 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Evil Within the Comparison Functions You can only rely on the compiler correctly compiling code with signaling NaNs if you use '#pragma STDC FENV_ACCESS ON', but Clang doesn't even support that.

lmm on Feb 19, 2018 [–]

If your language can't use signalling NaNs correctly, get a better language.

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