Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc: explicitly mention 'inf' values in seq(1) documentation

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 07/29/2014 06:56 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/29/2014 09:18 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> "inf" is supported on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris at least
> 
> Case-insensitive "inf" and "infinity" are required by POSIX for all
> strtod() implementations; and are required to map to floating point
> infinities for all but ancient hardware that lacks such a number (in
> which case it maps to HUGE_VAL instead).  Any libc that can't parse
> "inf" is non-POSIX-compliant, and we could argue that gnulib's strtod
> should be used to work around that broken implementation.  Therefore, I
> think the documentation should be unconditional that both forms are
> supported.

Thanks for the details.
Would you mind providing a documentation patch?

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny