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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: How to check a Float for NaN
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 16:20:55 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 7, 3:56 pm, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Adam Beneschan" <a...@irvine.com> wrote in message
>
> news:95c1de75-7aa0-4f00-bbc4-6f503a3c7aef@b9g2000prh.googlegroups.com...
> ...
>
> >   type Ieee_Short_Real is
> >      record
> >         Mantissa_Sign : Mantissa_Sign_Type;
> >         Exponent      : Exponent_Type;
> >         Mantissa      : Mantissa_Type;
> >      end record;
>
> > (I've omitted the rep clause because I think the one above might work
> > only for big-endian and not little-endian machines or vice versa, and
> > I don't feel like figuring it out because I have a cold and my head
> > hurts enough already.)
>
> Sorry about the cold, but if you omit the rep. clause, all of these
> components are likely to take full bytes and that won't work at all.

I didn't mean that this would work without a rep clause.  I only meant
that I didn't feel like figuring it out (especially given that I
wanted to use the constants I defined instead of hard-coded integer
literals).  Yes, it does need one.  How about if I say, "Left as an
exercise for the reader"??

                               -- Adam