From -4281752147261904379 X-Google-Thread: f78e5,e2cfdf64f67c7793 X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:00:08 -0500 Return-Path: X-Authentication-Warning: mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU: fjh set sender to devnull@stump.algebra.com using -f X-Robomod: STUMP, ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:56:17 GMT Delivered-To: std-c++@ucar.edu Received-SPF: none (mailbox6.ucsd.edu: domain of news@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com does not designate permitted sender hosts) From: John Nagle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Subject: Re: Eliminating uninitialised variables References: <4150695d@andromeda.datanet.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com X-UserInfo1: FKPGW^_D\JUQB\D[NCOF_W\@PJ_^PBQLGPQRJVMHQAVTUZ]CLNTCPFK[WDXDHV[K^FCGJCJLPF_D_NCC@FUG^Q\DINVAXSLIFXYJSSCCALP@PB@\OS@BITWAH\CQZKJMMD^SJA^NXA\GVLSRBD^M_NW_F[YLVTWIGAXAQBOATKBBQRXECDFDMQ\DZFUE@\JM X-Spamscanner: mailbox6.ucsd.edu (v1.5 Aug 25 2004 09:28:35, -2.8/5.0 3.0.0-rc1) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 31174 i8SIsgmP064750 mailbox6.ucsd.edu) Approved: Fergus Henderson , moderator of comp.std.c++ X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on manifold.algebra.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.64 Lines: 29 NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.81.147.48 X-Trace: sv3-Z8XJJj1yItHhe31caXrOwgrH1sqK+JFI+R5Lj5ZOcF7f1T0da5SnY80c4WfDwiaL4HFBPueFPJ1G1sm!iyreTBOPQo9AsCg0qgCkoGtFN0ZGPnEL1gvR66IuOTPd2EkL8GN5lRpTqwnk1+S9EU0YphECEeYe!yCMdC1tIWIzYU/IKmioql4bkw8paOw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.16 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.std.c++:2902 kanze@gabi-soft.fr wrote: > sean@f4.ca (Sean Kelly) wrote in message > news:... > >>walter@digitalmars.nospamm.com ("Walter") wrote in message >>news:... > > >>>It's too bad there is no NaN pattern for integer types. ... >>The standard does leave room for trap values, though I haven't >>encountered a compiler that uses them. Such things have been done. Look at the numeric representations of the Burroughs 5500, circa 1962, and its successors. Those were signed-magnitude machines with an integrated integer/floating point representation. John Nagle Animats --- [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://www.jamesd.demon.co.uk/csc/faq.html ]