[omniORB] Sending NANs

[Duncan Grisby]

On Wednesday 12 June, "Ivanov, Roumen" wrote:

> Could somebody tell me whether the CORBA standards are discussing the
> sending/marshaling of a NAN?

Floating point values are transmitted in IEEE 754 single, double or
extended precision formats, so there are well defined representations
of NaN, infinities, etc.

> Respectively - in omniORB - any problems?

I don't know of any problems, but you're at the mercy of your
platform's floating point support to do the right thing.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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