Changeset 8838 for trunk/doc/pslib/psLibSDRS.tex

Timestamp:

Sep 19, 2006, 11:56:42 AM (20 years ago)

Author:

Paul Price

Message:

Adding NaN and Inf to floating point types for metadata config files.

File:

• trunk/doc/pslib/psLibSDRS.tex (modified) (3 diffs)

trunk/doc/pslib/psLibSDRS.tex

@@ -1 @@
-%%% $Id: psLibSDRS.tex,v 1.429 2006-09-12 03:49:25 jhoblitt Exp $
+%%% $Id: psLibSDRS.tex,v 1.430 2006-09-19 21:56:42 price Exp $
 \documentclass[panstarrs,spec]{panstarrs}
 
@@ -3112 +3112 @@
 % XXX this is pretty much the same thing as psMetadataPrint() but in a
 % different format.  Can we dump psMetadataPrint()? -JH
+%%% Would prefer not to --- it's a simpler format, useful for debugging --- PAP.
 \begin{prototype}
 bool psMetadataConfigPrint(FILE *stream, psMetadata *md);
@@ -3184 +3185 @@
   1.23+4.56i in the future.}
 
-\tbd{May add null, Not-a-Number (NaN), de-normalized, underflow, overflow,
-and/or +/-infinity values for selected types.}
+A value specified as a floating point type (\code{F32} or \code{F64})
+may be Not-a-Number (\code{nan}) or positive infinity (\code{inf}) or
+negative infinity (\code{-inf}).
+
+\tbd{May add null, de-normalized, underflow, and/or overflow values
+for selected types.}
 
 \subparagraph{MULTI}