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Date: Mon,  2 May 2016 21:05:51 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] store NaN() to memory traps on 386 (387)
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> file under: awk was really designed for pre-posix unix.  :-)

its not just about awk. whenever you want to convert a string to
a floating point number under plan9 you'll have to deal with this
problem:

cpu% seq nan
seq 11791387: suicide: sys: fp: invalid operation fppc=0x2635 status=0x8081 pc=0x0000122f

--
cinap