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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: standards/112180: tgamma on negative integers returns Inf
 instead of NaN
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The following reply was made to PR standards/112180; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To: =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?Vincent_Lef=E8vre?= <vincent@vinc17.org>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: standards/112180: tgamma on negative integers returns Inf instead
 of NaN
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:14:55 +1000 (EST)

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 On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Vincent Lef=E8vre wrote:
 
 > Though POSIX allows an implementation-defined value to be returned, this =
 is mainly in the case where NaN is not supported, and NaN is the best choic=
 e and is what tgamma returns on other platforms (Linux, HP-UX, Mac OS X).
 
 Also, Annex F of C99 (about the IEEE-754/IEC-mumble binding) requires a NaN
 plus the "invalid" exception.
 
 Bruce
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