[Cfp-interest 1847] Re: fmax, fmin

[Fred J. Tydeman]

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:13:14 -0800 Jim Thomas wrote:
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>> I am not sure what I should be doing here about this item.
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>Is this for the action item:
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>    Fred: Write a paper to remove the fminfN/fmaxfN/fmindN/... functions from part 3 as an annex.

Yes it is.

>The action item seems fairly specific, and only pertains to the part 3 annex. Your last change below is about the action item.
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>I thought we had decided not to remove or obsolesce the fmax and fmin functions in the C23 draft (not including the part 3 annex).

Since the decimal FP stuff is new to C23, what about:

> Remove fmaxd32, fmaxd64, fmaxd128.
> Remove fmind32, fmind64, fmind128.


>We should replace use of fmax in G.5.1#8. Did you check that fmaximum is a good replacement, i.e., that fmaximum_num isn't needed? 

I did not check that choice.

>It would be good to look for any other needed cleanup from adding the new max-min functions.

OK



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