[Cfp-interest 1818] Re: Exact subnormal results

Sat Oct 24 06:58:39 PDT 2020

On Sat, 24 Oct 2020 17:18:26 +1100 (AEDT) Damian McGuckin wrote:
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>I find messing with an errno of ERANGE or EDOM does awful things to my
>optimization. Are there any plans to get rid of these two cases in the
>standardization iteration after C23?

No.  But, currently, implementations are NOT required to use errno.
They can set math_errhandling to just MATH_ERREXCEPT.

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