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40 .Fn nan "const char *s"
42 .Fn nanf "const char *s"
44 .Fn nanl "const char *s"
48 macro expands to a quiet \*(Na (Not A Number).
54 functions generate a quiet \*(Na value without raising an invalid exception.
57 should point to either an empty string or a hexadecimal representation
58 of a non-negative integer (e.g. 0x1234).
59 In the latter case, the integer is encoded in some free bits in the
60 representation of the \*(Na, which sometimes stores
61 machine-specific information about why a particular \*(Na was generated.
62 There are 22 such bits available for
64 variables, 51 bits for
66 variables, and at least 51 bits for a
70 is improperly formatted or represents an integer that is too large,
71 then the particular encoding of the quiet \*(Na that is returned
74 Calling these functions with a non-empty string isn't portable.
75 Another operating system may translate the string into a different
76 \*(Na encoding, and furthermore, the meaning of a given \*(Na encoding
77 varies across machine architectures.
78 If you understood the innards of a particular platform well enough to
79 know what string to use, then you would have no need for these functions
80 anyway, so don't use them.