On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 10:47 PM Thomas Koenig <tkoe...@netcologne.de> wrote:
> Hi Janne, > > > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:47 PM, Janne Blomqvist < > blomqvist.ja...@gmail.com > >> wrote: > > > >> For floating point types, the question is what MAX(a, NaN) or MIN(a, > >> NaN) should return (where "a" is a normal number). There are valid > >> usecases for returning either one, but the Fortran standard doesn't > >> specify which one should be chosen. Also, there is no consensus among > >> other tested compilers. In short, it's a mess. So lets just do > >> whatever is fastest, which is using MAX_EXPR/MIN_EXPR which are not > >> defined to do anything in particular if one of the operands is a NaN. > >> > >> Regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, Ok for trunk? > > OK. > Thanks, committed. > > Could you also document this behavior in the "Compiler Characteristics" > section, and make mention of the change in gcc-9/changes.html ? > Yes, done. I also updated the News page in the wiki. -- Janne Blomqvist
