Re: Release plans: Version 4.4.4 and beyond

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On 10/11/11 17:53, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> On Tuesday, 11 October 2011, pl...@pi... wrote:
>>
>> I saw "not_a_number for MinGW build (gcc-4.5.0)" was committed just over
>> a year ago but did not seem to be fixed in 4.4.3 release in March.
>
> The same fix (10-10-2010) went into stdfn.c in both 4.4 and 4.5
> Note that this fix only deals with initializing the NaN variable internally.
> It does not correct for any oddities in the C-language support library.
> I.e., if the library routines fscanf() and atod() cannot deal with the
> string "NaN" in an input file, that's a separate problem.
> I don't know whether or not that is an issue with MinGW.
>
> What is the symptom?
> If you start the program and say "print NaN", what does it show?
>
> 	Ethan
>
Hi,

yes that's exactly the problem as reported in that bug.

print NaN;
  gives me zero .

(apart from nothing using NaN behaving as expected)

thx.


>
>> I don't use "other" OSes myself but I'm helping a college who has that
>> misfortune. He is very impressed with gnuplot which I encouraged him to
>> use and gave his a script for his data to get him started. However, I
>> had to do a messy hack to get around the NaN=0 bug in the windoze build
>> he got from SF.
>>
>> I don't have a cross-compilation set up for mwing so I can't build it here.
>>
>> Will this be fixed in next release?
>>
>> Best regards, Peter.
>>
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