"Kent Karlsson" <kentk@md.chalmers.se> writes: [...] | No-one seems to have come up with a really good use | for *signalling* NaNs, but seems to be and inheritance from pre-IEEE | floating point implementations ("invalid operands")... I've seen a software (written in C) that used signalling NaN to tag "unintialized data". I think that was a case of "good use". -- Gaby