[Cfp-interest] Fall 2013 WG14 Meeting Day 1 Floating point part 1 TS discussion minutes

[Rajan Bhakta]

n1742: Comments on IEEE 754-2008 C Binding Spec Part 1 voting
  Comments as presented by the CFP group

  Presenter: Jim, Using N1754 as the basis (N1742 + Floating point group
responses).

  GB1:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB2:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB3:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB4:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB5:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB6 (freestanding):  Blaine: Are you saying freestanding programs have to
include <stdlib.h>?
        Jim: No.
        Blaine: How does the "use the features and contents" work?
        Jim: It can be a reduced header only containing the numeric
functions.
	Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB7:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB8:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB9:  Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB10 (WANT macro): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB11: (Covered in a DR)
  GB12: (Covered in a DR)
  GB13 (not withstanding): John Benito: Suggestion: Add a footnote stating
that this is removing the leeway or explain it better.
        Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB14: (Covered in a DR)
  GB15: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB16 (Encoding): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB17: May make implementors decide not to do it due to a lot more work.
But also better to fix it.
        David Keaton: Many printf's are limited to 4K due to an internal
buffer.
        No DR for this issue in C11 (printf family)
        Leave it as is.
  GB18: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB19: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB20: (Covered in a DR)
  GB21: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB22: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB23 (Table 2): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB24 (Table 2): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB25 (Table 2): Leave it as is. No consensus with WG14 to make any
change.
  GB26: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB27: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB28 (p15,25-26): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB29: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB30: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB31 (WIDTH): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB32: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB33 (INTN_WIDTH): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB34 (p27,1-12): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB35 (p27,33-34): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB36: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB37 (p30,1-28): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB38 (p33): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
  GB39: Agreed with CFP proposed change.

  John: Up to us to decide what the next step is: Do another same ballot or
move on to the next step (DTS ballot)?
    The comment from the Netherlands was not an official comment on the
ballot.
    We had C++ comments on this ballot too.

  n1755:
    JWT1: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
    JWT2: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
          John: These types of changes do not need reporting to WG14. They
can be made on the editors discretion.
    JWT3: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
    JWT4: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
    JWT5: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
    JWT6: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
    JWT7 (_Bool sNAN): Agreed with CFP proposed change.
    JWT8: Agreed with CFP proposed change.
    JWT9: Agreed with CFP proposed change.

  n1756:
    No comments.

  John: Any objection to moving on to DTS ballot?
    None.
  Review committee (preference to people not in the CFP group):
    Fred Tydeman, David Keaton, John Benito
    Will review n1756 + additional missed change.
  Blaine: When is the yy replacement (year) happen?
    Done after the last ballot. The only change before publish.

Regards,

Rajan Bhakta
z/OS XL C/C++ Compiler Technical Architect
ISO C Standards Representative for Canada
C Compiler Development
Contact: rbhakta at us.ibm.com, Rajan Bhakta/Houston/IBM
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