POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : QNAN - Error... : Re: QNAN - Error... Server Time
1 Aug 2024 04:12:51 EDT (-0400)
  Re: QNAN - Error...  
From: "Jérôme M. Berger"
Date: 27 Mar 2006 12:19:02
Message: <44281e86$1@news.povray.org>
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Chris B wrote:
> Hi TIm,
> I tried to write out a few different things that I thought might be invalid, 
> but I didn't manage to generate any QNANs.
> I would suggest doing a tool that will let you do a multi-file search on 
> 'QNAN' against the POV-Ray source to give you some idea about the type of 
> circumstances in POV-Ray that can lead to a QNAN. I can't imagine there'll 
> be that many.
> 
	Unfortunately, there probably aren't any! Those kind of numbers are
usually generated by the floating point hardware and the code that
writes them as the string "QNAN" is in the standard C library, so a
search through the povray code shouldn't turn up anything...

		Jerome

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