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[bug-gsl] Re: [Help-gsl] gsl_isinf (2008-10-09)

From: Brian Gough <bjg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Help-gsl] gsl_isinf
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:55:14 +0100
To: jgmbenoit@.............
Cc: bug-gsl@gnu.org, help-gsl@gnu.org

At Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:07:17 +0800,
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> >> gsl_isinf(GSL_NEGINF) give -1 (as expected) on some of my computers,
> >> whereas it gives +1 on others: my computer are amd64 Debian boxes (Etch based and Lenny):
> >> Amazingly, it seems that this feature is not well tested.
> >
> > Can you compare the result with the system isinf() function. Thanks.
>
> It appeared that gsl_isinf() and isinf() give the same results.

The problem was that we used the system isinf() function. I have
modified the code to always test the sign and put a note in the
documentation.

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Brian Gough

GNU Scientific Library -
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