[Cfp-interest 1625] Re: TS3 annex review

[Jim Thomas]

The C standard doesn’t generally include rationale. What are you thinking the footnote might say?

> On Jun 5, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 11:55:18 -0700 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>> We recently changed this part so that it would not evaluate to a type different from the semantic type if both these types have the same values. For example, _Float32 op _Float32 now evaluates to _Float32, not float. This change was made to avoid surprises in the definitions of the _t types, which match the evaluation types. Removing "strict" would defeat the purpose of the change.
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> OK.  Is it worth adding a footnote about this?
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