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Re: [Cbor] NaN payload notation (Re: 7049bis: Diagnostic notation gaps)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 16 September 2020 21:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] NaN payload notation (Re: 7049bis: Diagnostic notation gaps)
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On 2020-09-16, at 18:58, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com> wrote:
> 
> To confirm I understand you, are these sequences identical to each other (in 
> the same line)?
> 
>  NaN_1	NaN'7e00'		NaN
>  NaN_2	NaN'7fc00000'
>  NaN_3	NaN'7ff8000000000000'

That was my intention, except that NaN is unspecific about encoding length just as 1.0 is, so it should be on all three lines (but the first one is the preferred encoding).

(I still have to check the syntax whether NaN’…’ bites us anywhere, but I think it shouldn’t.)

> (the bit patterns are the QNaN, unless I made a mistake; I'm not trying to 
> trick you)

RFC 7049 is trying to help you :-)

$ grep NaN rfc7049.txt | grep 0x
   | NaN                          | 0xf97e00                           |
   | NaN                          | 0xfa7fc00000                       |
   | NaN                          | 0xfb7ff8000000000000               |
$

Grüße, Carsten

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