[Cfp-interest 1843] Re: C math errors

Jim Thomas jaswthomas at sbcglobal.net
Thu Nov 12 16:15:04 PST 2020



> On Nov 11, 2020, at 2:36 PM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:31:56 -0800 Jim Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> https://wiki.edg.com/pub/CFP/WebHome/C_range_errors-20201110.pdf 
> 
> One minor wording issue: "must" should be replaced with "shall".

Agreed.

> 
> I believe it would help if there were a summary at the end and it
> listed the proposed changes to C23.
> 

The paper is just for CFP discussion at this point. We might need to resolve some of the key definition issues, namely #1, 4, and 8, before drilling down on the wording for suggested changes to draft C23.

- Jim Thomas

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