[Cfp-interest] implementing tgmath for constant rounding modes

Jim Thomas jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jun 13 19:46:57 PDT 2012


On Jun 13, 2012, at 5:35 PM, Fred J. Tydeman wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:39:36 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
>> 
>>> So, in effect, __roundwise_cbrt becomes a special keyword/token/symbol to the compiler.
>>> And the same for all the other math functions (that is a lot of names to treat special).
>> 
>> Think of it as just one prefix. The compiler can treat any function call with the prefix the same way.
> 
> 
> OK.  But, then we need to add words to our document telling what
> that prefix is (so everyone does the same thing).

I think specifying implementation interfaces is out of scope.
-Jim

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