[Cfp-interest] DFP: fenv: status flags

[Jim Thomas]

The decimal and binary arithmetics here refer to the whole specifications (as in the titles of the specifications), which includes operations that raise, set, clear, and test flags. "Access" seems like an appropriate term.

-Jim

On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:29:37 -0800 Jim Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> I'll leave the currently posted documents (with the change 
>> bars), on the wiki, in case some of you want to look at 
>> them some more.
> 
> PDF page 19, lines 8-10 has:
> 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.
> 
> 
> It seems to me that 'access' is the wrong word.
> Arithmetic only sets (never clears) the FP exception status
> flags.  So, perhaps 'alter' might be better.
> 
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