Rich Felker
98c9af5001
two issues: (1) the type was wrong (unsigned instead of signed int), and (2) the value of FP_ILOGBNAN should be INT_MIN rather than INT_MAX to match the ABI. this is also much more useful since INT_MAX corresponds to a valid input (infinity). the standard would allow us to set FP_ILOGB0 to -INT_MAX instead of INT_MIN, which would give us distinct values for ilogb(0) and ilogb(NAN), but the benefit seems way too small to justify ignoring the ABI. note that the macro is just a "portable" (to any twos complement system where signed and unsigned int have the same width) way to write INT_MIN without needing limits.h. it's valid to use this method since these macros are not required to work in #if directives.
musl libc - a new standard library to power a new generation of
Linux-based devices. musl is lightweight, fast, simple, free, and
strives to be correct in the sense of standards-conformance and
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and compatibility. All interfaces in ISO C99 and POSIX 2008 base exist
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GNU and BSD libraries and syscall interfaces for Linux-kernel-specific
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success where other implementations can fail under resource exhaustion
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Rich Felker / dalias