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From: frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Determining IEEE NaN and INF on RISC Ultrix
Keywords: IEEE NaN INF MIPS low-endian
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Date: 24 Sep 90 13:41:43 GMT
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The ULTRIX 4.0 distribution includes a fixed /usr/include/nan.h file. 
If you can't upgrade,
your could try just reversing the bit fields in the nan.h file.  For
example, in the inf_parts
structure, the fraction_low bit field is the first instead of the last.

Regards,
					Frank