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passing Indeterminate and Infinity to C via MathLink

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg121321] passing Indeterminate and Infinity to C via MathLink
• From: Roman <rschmied at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:29:23 -0400 (EDT)
• Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com

Hello all,
I am setting up a C function which accepts real numbers from MathLink.
The behavior I would like to achieve is that whenever the number is
"Infinity" then the C function receives "inf" (which is a valid double-
precision-format number); and whenever the number is "Indeterminate"
then the C function receives "nan" (which is also a valid double-
precision-format number).
Unfortunately MathLink (Mathematica 7.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit))
crashes whenever I am trying to pass either Infinity or Indeterminate
to a MathLink function expecting a double-precision number.
Would you know how to solve this without going into If[] statements on
the Mathematica side of MathLink?
Thanks!
Roman