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+@node isnan
+@section @code{isnan}
+@findex isnan
+
+POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/isnan.html}
+
+Gnulib module: isnan
+
+Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
+@itemize
+@item
+This macro is missing on some platforms:
+MSVC 9.
+@item
+@code{isnan} was introduced with C99 and is thus commonly not present
+on pre-C99 systems.
+@item
+@code{isnan} is not a macro on some platforms:
+IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1 with gcc, Solaris 11 2010-11.
+@item
+On IRIX 6.5 with @code{cc}, @code{isnan} does not recognize some NaNs.
+@item
+On NetBSD/i386 and glibc/ia64, @code{isnan} does not recognize some
+forms of NaNs, such as pseudo-NaNs, pseudo-Infinities, and
+unnormalized numbers.
+@item
+On i686 and @var{x}86-64, @code{__builtin_isnanl} (and thus
+@code{isnan} implementations based on it) in GCC 4.0 and later does
+not recognize pseudo-denormals as NaNs, and similarly for
+pseudo-zeroes, unnormalized numbers, and pseudo-denormals on ia64.
+@end itemize
+
+Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
+@itemize
+@end itemize