Re: [PATCH] Re: glibc segfault on "special" long double values is _ok_!?

[Jim Meyering]

Jakub Jelinek <address@hidden> wrote:
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> We already special case e.g. 0x0000.80000000.00000000 (pseudo denormal
> with implicit bit set), so I guess we can also special case this other
> misdesigned FP type.

Great!

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> That said, programs that pass arbitrary bit patterns read from an insecure
> source to *printf and other functions are definitely
> broken as floating point numbers, they can hit signalling NaNs etc.

They aren't necessarily broken.
They should be able to deal with an sNaN via a SIGFPE handler.
With your change, they won't have to handle SIGSEGV.

Thank you!