[Cfp-interest 1787] Re: totalorder

[Jim Thomas]

> On Oct 6, 2020, at 10:09 AM, Fred J. Tydeman <tydeman at tybor.com> wrote:
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> Why does the C2x version of totalorder return an int instead of a _Bool?

The only such uses of _Bool in the standard library in C18 are in <stdatomic.h>. Draft C2X also uses _Bool for the samequantumdN functions in <math.h>. I don’t recall how the samequantumdN functions came to use _Bool. Has WG14 discussed this?
 
> The IEEE-754 version returns a boolean.

I don’t think this is relevant to the C binding.

Maybe whether and when to use _Bool in the C library are questions for WG14?

- Jim Thomas
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