0.65/AIX

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> On the system I have access to, I can compile only with
> 
> 	-D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED=2 (VERY noisy)
> or
> 	-D_ALL_SOURCE
> 
> In either case, we get the above.
> 
> I will hence use ALL_SOURCE for the time being.
> 
> Note that
> 
> > 1/0 - 1/0# NaN
> [1]NaNQ
> > is.nan(1/0 - 1/0)
> [1] TRUE
> 
> so what is really going on here???

Double "hmmmm"....

Can you run this under gdb? If so, could you set a breakpoint in
EncodeReal and step through it? 

That'll be (roughly)

R -d gdb
(gdb) run
^C
(gdb) break EncodeReal
(gdb) continue
> 1/0
(gdb) next
<etc.>

I bet it never enters the "if (!R_FINITE(x))" branch as it should.
This could happen if HAVE_FINITE and IEEE_754 are both undefined in
Arith.h, or if finite(x) doesn't work in the IEEE way.

>From what Martin has been telling us, AIX is using IEEE format numbers
and arithmetic anyhow, so it should be fairly easy to fudge a better
R_FINITE (and ISNAN too). I think we went through some of that last
time we had R_FINITE/ISNAN and friends on the board, didn't we?
Something pretty close to the following should work:

#define R_FINITE(x) ({double y = x; \
	 *((int *) &y) & 0x7ff00000 != 0x7ff00000})

#define ISNAN(x) ({double y = x; \
	*((int *) &y) & 0x7ff00000 == 0x7ff00000 && \
	(*((int *) &y) & 0x7fffffff != 0x7ff00000 || *((int *) &y + 1) != 0)}

Of course, that kind of code is pretty architecture dependent, etc...
Perhaps one should first check what the status of IEEE macros in AIX
really is.

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