[Cfp-interest] ISSUE 6: 11.2 Floating-point environment

Jim Thomas jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net
Mon Sep 17 15:54:17 PDT 2012


Please review the this change to Part 2:

Suggested changes to C11:

Add the following after 7.6 paragraph 6:

[6a] Decimal floating-point arithmetic and IEC 60559 binary floating-point arithmetic (Annex F) access the same floating-point exception status flags.

Add the following after 7.6 paragraph 8:

…

[8b] During translation, constant rounding direction modes for decimal floating-point arithmetic are in effect where specified. Elsewhere, during translation the decimal rounding direction mode is FE_DEC_TONEAREST.


[8c] At program startup the dynamic rounding direction mode for decimal floating-point arithmetic is initialized to FE_DEC_TONEAREST.


-Jim
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