File 0364-Clarify-in-the-docs-that-NEW_-FLOAT_EXT-must-be-fini.patch of Package erlang
From 674379e1f09748cbd497ba381ab8ddd6581effa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benedikt Reinartz <filmor@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:18:06 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify in the docs that (NEW_)FLOAT_EXT must be finite
---
erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml
index ca55c6233c..4721747097 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml
@@ -389,8 +389,9 @@
</row>
<tcaption></tcaption></table>
<p>
- A float is stored in string format. the format used in sprintf to
- format the float is "%.20e"
+ A finite float (i.e. not inf, -inf or NaN) is stored in
+ string format. The format used in sprintf to format the
+ float is "%.20e"
(there are more bytes allocated than necessary).
To unpack the float use sscanf with format "%lf".
</p>
@@ -1068,7 +1069,8 @@
</row>
<tcaption></tcaption></table>
<p>
- A float is stored as 8 bytes in big-endian IEEE format.
+ A finite float (i.e. not inf, -inf or NaN) is stored as 8 bytes
+ in big-endian IEEE format.
</p>
<p>
This term is used in minor version 1 of the external format.
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