[Cfp-interest] outstanding issues - #6

Fred J. Tydeman tydeman at tybor.com
Wed Apr 11 10:24:35 PDT 2012


On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:35:30 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>ISSUE 6: The macro names FP_CEIL, etc. might suggest results will be in floating types.
>
>How about FP_INT_UPWARD, etc.? These: indicate that integers are involved and don't refer to ceil so don't suggest conversion to floating type; are different enough from FE_UPWARD, etc. to avoid mixing them up; start with FP like most other macros in math.h; and aren't too terribly long.
>

Seems fine to me.


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