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Ensure that the trig functions return NaN for NaN input regardless of what the underlying C library functions might do. Also ensure that an error is thrown for Inf (or otherwise out-of-range) input, except for atan/atan2 which should accept it. All these behaviors should now conform to the POSIX spec; previously, all our popular platforms deviated from that in one case or another. The main remaining platform dependency here is whether the C library might choose to throw a domain error for sin/cos/tan inputs that are large but less than infinity. (Doing so is not unreasonable, since once a single unit-in-the-last-place exceeds PI, there can be no significance at all in the result; however there doesn't seem to be any suggestion in POSIX that such an error is allowed.) We will report such errors if they are reported via "errno", but not if they are reported via "fetestexcept" which is the other mechanism sanctioned by POSIX. Some preliminary experiments with fetestexcept indicated that it might also report errors we could do without, such as complaining about underflow at an unreasonably large threshold. So let's skip that complexity for now. Dean Rasheed, reviewed by Michael Paquier
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