Is there a standard way to check for Infinite and NaN in Fortran 90/95?

Question

I\'ve been trying to find a standards-compliant way to check for Infinite and NaN values in Fortran 90/95 but it proved harder than I thought.

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Answer 1

I have used:

  PROGRAM MYTEST
  USE, INTRINSIC :: IEEE_ARITHMETIC, ONLY: IEEE_IS_FINITE      
  DOUBLE PRECISION :: number, test
  number = 'the expression to test'
  test = number/number
  IF (IEEE_IS_FINITE(test)) THEN
     WRITE(*,*) 'We are OK'
  ELSE
     WRITE(*,*) 'Got a problem'
  END IF         
     WRITE(*,*) number, test
  END PROGRAM MYTEST

This will print 'Got a problem' for number = 0.0D0, 1.0D0/0.0D0, 0.0D0/0.0D0, SQRT(-2.0D0), and also for overflows and underflows such as number = EXP(1.0D800) or number = EXP(-1.0D800). Notice that generally, things like number = EXP(1.0D-800) will just set number = 1.0 and produce a warning at compilation time, but the program will print 'We are OK', which I find acceptable.

OL.