[Cfp-interest] Comments on current documents
Mike Cowlishaw
mfc at speleotrove.com
Fri Feb 15 04:18:39 PST 2013
Notes from 2013.02.14 telecon, as promised. These are all
minor/editorial and refer to the draft documents:
cfp1-20121210.pdf
cfp2-20121215.pdf
cfp3-20130212.pdf
a) There are some possible inconsistencies in the form of the
Introductions of the three documents:
cfp1 mentions all five parts under 'Purpose',
cfp2 mentions only parts 1 & 2, under 'The formats', and
cfp3 mentions only parts 1 & 2, under 'C Support...'.
b) in cfp2, page vi line 19, has:
"C11 specifies floating-point arithmetic using a two-layer
organization. The first layer provides..."
but I then got a bit lost as I was expecting the second layer to
be mentioned/described, but it never was?
c) some nits in cfp3 Introduction:
Page 1 line 10: ending period missing
line 17: "Interchange format may or may not be supported as
arithmetic." is ill-formed (and I'm not quite sure what the
intent is)
line 19: "arithmetic formats where computation may be done" sounds
a bit awkward; perhaps: "arithmetic formats which can be used
for computation"
line 38: "C language provides..." -> "The C language provides..."?
(Or should it be "The C language specification provides..."?
line 38: refers to 'three "generic" floating formats" -- should
line 29 also refer to the 128 bit format (and use the word
'generic')?
Page 2 line 11 'proposed' -> 'specifies'?
Mike
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